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Elon Musk reveals jaw-dropping DOGE find he had to read several times before it 'sank in'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 04/10/2025 | Rachel Bowman

Posted on 04/10/2025 4:30:23 AM PDT by DFG

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1 posted on 04/10/2025 4:30:23 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

99% will be DEMOCRATS!!


2 posted on 04/10/2025 4:39:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: DFG

Democrats will be Democrats.


3 posted on 04/10/2025 4:42:06 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: DFG

But how much is fraud and how much is fat fingers on a keyboard?

I am disappointed no one ever seems to be charged for the fraud.


4 posted on 04/10/2025 4:42:10 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: DFG

I bet their addresses are NGOs HQs..................


5 posted on 04/10/2025 4:42:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DFG

This is due to massive theft of SS numbers the last 20 years by illegal aliens. The child has an SS number and unfortunately dies. Guess who steals this unused SS number, to slap onto a forged ID?


6 posted on 04/10/2025 4:44:01 AM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: DFG

no internal controls

file a claim

get a check


7 posted on 04/10/2025 4:47:21 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: DFG

Typos? European dates?


8 posted on 04/10/2025 4:47:29 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

Fat fingering a keyboard could never input a birthdate in 2154.

That has to be intentional.


9 posted on 04/10/2025 4:48:11 AM PDT by usmcobra (Happiness is a belt fed weapon.)
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To: Ann Archy

Someone posted the same on X that most were RATs. Musk posted a one word answer and it was yes.

Some of the democrats are very quiet right now. I imagine they are trying to stay out of the limelight because they are guilty as sin.

At first they screamed and lashed out with stompy feet. Now some have grown very silent.


10 posted on 04/10/2025 4:48:19 AM PDT by dforest
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I thought the states handled unemployment.


11 posted on 04/10/2025 4:49:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

either way there should be internal controls

that would kick the claim out for examination

who wrote the software?


12 posted on 04/10/2025 4:50:01 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: DFG

I hope they’ve enjoyed their ill gotten gains. No need to worry about any of them even being questioned with Blondi and Patel comatose asleep at the wheel. If only we could make Musk AG/FBI Director then we could fire Trump’s top two shadow state stooges.


13 posted on 04/10/2025 4:50:56 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 36 months)
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Finding fraud in age groups (or even non living people) is the easy part and it’s a wonder it’s never been done before. They just ran some database queries and selected data records (or sorted them) based on ages or DOB.

What this means is that there is probably A LOT MORE fraud in there that is not quite as easily identifiable, at least in one step, because they are within normal adult eligible age groups.


14 posted on 04/10/2025 4:54:05 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Democrats were always generous with other people’s money.
I remember, when Reagan tried reign in gov spending, I read an article, seriously claiming how great Democrats are.

“Democrats would rather spend money on hundred of fraudsters, than leave one deserving man starve.”
“We are just so compassionate, we make sure that every starving person gets their share, even if it means that we let some money go to waste.”


15 posted on 04/10/2025 4:54:40 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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I can recall working for the Democrats in a neighboring state and pointing out fraud and being told that the government was not opposed to money being funneled to the communality. It was infuriating.


16 posted on 04/10/2025 4:55:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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it’s a wonder it’s never been done before

No, it's not.

17 posted on 04/10/2025 4:56:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: central_va

Feds have unemployment records for tax purposes


18 posted on 04/10/2025 4:58:58 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: DFG; Raycpa; dforest

Wait a minute - didn’t Doge find (https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/social-security-database-doge/2025/03/18/id/1203290/) 12 million people aged 120+ way back in mid-March?

did the number drop to 24K?

As I remember, when they retracted that 12 million number, it was that DOGE incorrectly read the systems — SSA systems run on COBOL and had rules like if Social Security lacks certain birthdate information, it defaults to displaying May 20, 1875.

Consequently, people whose birthdates are unrecorded appear to be 150 years old.

The date May 20, 1875, marks the foundation of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. The SSA adopted this historical date as part of the COBOL programming standards, which were established for consistency across various systems. This means when no date of birth is logged, the default date teachers programme pick kicks back, and the peculiar phenomenon of ‘150-year-olds’ ensues.

DOGE should hire 60 year old programmers who know their way around COBOL, Basic, TPF, Fortran etc.


19 posted on 04/10/2025 5:03:33 AM PDT by Cronos
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One of the first things that you learn in business school is that your job consists of Planning, Leading, Organizing, and “control.” Control means putting methods in place to ensure that things are getting done in the right manner.

There doesn’t seem to be much control going on. Most of these errors are clearly “input” errors. They should be caught and corrected in periodic reviews.

Without proper controls, you have no idea if you are doing your work correctly and efficiently.


20 posted on 04/10/2025 5:05:24 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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