Tyrangle

@Tyrangle@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chart⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Social security and Medicare are considered mandatory spending. The chart above is presumably showing discretionary spending, which is a sunset of the overall budget. I can’t speak to it’s accuracy beyond that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious to see how DOGE ends up handling this. Given the scale of potential fraud, you’d probably need a dedicated task force just to help sift through cases and figure out what’s going on. If you do uncover fraud, then you’d need more people to hold the guilty parties accountable. It might take a few years to work through such a huge number of cases, and with more people aging out of the system each year, it’d likely need to be an ongoing effort. You’d basically need to create a whole new fraud agency to deal with this problem, which is ironic given that the IRS already does this and we’re actively trying to downsize them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-time homebuyers in Oregon get $30K grant — but American citizens aren’t eligible⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounded outrageous so I checked their website: haciendacdc.org/…/statement-from-hacienda-communi…

  Supposedly you need 2/5 criteria to be eligible, and only one of those includes citizenship, so American citizens do qualify if they meet 2/4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨literally me⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kept hearing this complaint but when I finally watched it there was only one scene where I couldn’t hear the dialogue (when Neil is scoping out the airport bank vault) and it seemed very much intentional. Did you find this to be an issue throughout the entire film?