📊Social Security deliberately sabotaged to justify privatization
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Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter July 24, 2025, demanding Social Security's inspector general audit the agency's customer service collapse under Commissioner Frank Bisignano's Trump-ordered reorganization. Warren seeks investigation into worsening wait times and service metrics as the administration's restructuring leaves millions unable to access benefits or get assistance.
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- <ul><li><strong>Deliberate service destruction creates public hatred that justifies privatization schemes benefiting Wall Street</strong>: Commissioner Bisignano's reorganization makes Social Security so dysfunctional that desperate seniors accept private account alternatives promoted by financial firms. Chile's pension privatization followed identical patterns—sabotage public system performance
- then offer corporate solutions that enrich investment managers.</li><li><strong>Office closures and staff cuts force months-long waits for benefits that seniors need to survive</strong>: Disabled Americans and retirees wait while rent and medication costs continue
- creating artificial crises through administrative neglect. Reagan used similar tactics during the 1980s
- cutting IRS funding to create tax processing delays that justified agency budget reductions.</li><li><strong>Elizabeth Warren's inspector general investigation could expose systematic sabotage designed to justify dismantling</strong>: Senate oversight provides last check against administrative destruction of programs that Congress created and funded. Watergate investigations similarly used inspector general reports to document Nixon administration abuse of federal agencies for political purposes.</li><li><strong>Reorganization coincides with broader conservative agenda to eliminate New Deal programs through managed failure</strong>: Social Security represents largest remaining social insurance program after Medicare
- making it prime target for ideological assault through performance sabotage. Thatcher's Britain used comparable tactics
- deliberately weakening public services before privatizing them to corporate cronies at below-market prices.</li></ul>
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Why This Matters
Social Security help vanishes as offices close nationwide:
Reorganization shutters locations and slashes staff while disability claims and retirement applications pile up unprocessed.
Desperate seniors wait months for benefit answers:
Phone holds stretch hours and offices turn away visitors as "efficiency" cuts leave skeleton crews serving millions.
Privatization agenda creates crisis to justify elimination:
Deliberate service destruction makes people hate Social Security, setting stage for Wall Street takeover of retirement funds.
File complaints about Social Security delays:
Document wait times at ssa.gov/feedback—congressional oversight needs evidence of service collapse to force fixes.
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Senator Warren sent a letter on July 24, 2025 demanding an audit of Social Security’s customer service collapse under Commissioner Frank Bisignano’s reorganization.
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