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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(57,161 posts)14. Why wait? Do it ** now **. Good form of mass action to overwhelm them now with millions of people
Go there to ask for an appointment. (I had been thinking of the way it is here. You walk into the Service Canada office downtown, speak to a human immediately, get service after a short wait or an appointment or you are given the needed forms.)
Go in person. Bring a book or a downloaded movie, beverage, folding chair.
Go to ask a person to check up on your status with SSI. Ask a specific question or two and a follow up. Take your time to understand the answer.
Fill the chairs in the waiting room. Fill the waiting room. Fill the waiting room so much that they call the fire marshal.
Form lines outside. Make new friends. Motivate them to specific actions. Recruit for upcoming protest marches.
The more people the better. The sooner the better.
And then come back another day. However many days it takes.
Mass action.
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EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people [View all]
highplainsdem
Mar 2025
OP
And then it is not an actual appointment, just permission to sit in the waiting room
Irish_Dem
Mar 2025
#13
And remember to make the process as complicated as possible. We are dealing with senior citizens and new arrivals here!
FSogol
Mar 2025
#24
Yes. Lots of paperwork and forms to fill out. And documents to bring to the appt.
Irish_Dem
Mar 2025
#33
I wonder though. Most of us do not have guns, most of us are not in physical shape to fight physically.
Eliot Rosewater
Mar 2025
#35
This will be an epic disaster. People will have the pitchforks out if this happens.
kysrsoze
Mar 2025
#3
That does not bother the people in DC as all the anger will be directed at the people in the local office, as always.
LiberalArkie
Mar 2025
#23
That's what Republicans want. Throw your hands in the air and say fuck it,shut it down.
Bengus81
Mar 2025
#4
Secret rules, secret laws, secret courts ... next up, secret executions of citizens
NotHardly
Mar 2025
#9
Many on the DOGE closing lists are NOT going to close-Repub politicians have stepped in
wishstar
Mar 2025
#17
Why wait? Do it ** now **. Good form of mass action to overwhelm them now with millions of people
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2025
#14
Do it for all government offices you might possibly interact with. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2025
#19
CLOSING offices, FIRING employees, and giving the remaining MORE WORK to do will not make the system more honest.
pnwmom
Mar 2025
#32
If you'd read the article at the OP you'd have seen the link answering your question. Here's the SSA press release.
pnwmom
Mar 2025
#41
Millions of people every year make new Social Security claims or change their direct deposit.
pnwmom
Mar 2025
#43
There has been ZERO evidence of significant fraud. First, they claimed that millions of accounts appeared
pnwmom
Mar 2025
#46
The issue is about 'Social Security fraud that the DOGE boys unearthed -- which they have provided no evidence of,
pnwmom
Mar 2025
#48
Republican efficiency makes things take a hell of a lot longer and very inconvenient
IronLionZion
Mar 2025
#22