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Musk's Social Security plan is "profoundly stupid and will definitely fail" says expert

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 04, 2025
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Elon Musk thinks he can modernize Social Security's 60-million-line COBOL codebase in just a few months. What could possibly go wrong? Only everything that keeps 73 million Americans' benefits flowing.

As reported in Computerworld, Musk's fake "Department of Government Efficiency" wants to convert the …

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