I saw my friend Alex Lawson on Maddow Friday April 12, 2025. He said,
Alex Lawson, ED Social Security Works on The Rachel Maddow Show, Friday April 12, 2025

a missed check for some people is a death sentence, a missed check for some people is going to mean that they are out on the street. So we have to come together. And understand that when this catastrophic failure happens, and I believe it will, there’s no indication that they’re trying to fix things, just accelerate it. 73 Million people rely on Social Security. Imagine the chaos that will come when those checks don’t go out. Rachel, it is going to be a scenario that’s hard to imagine how catastrophic it will be.

I put the date of the warning in here, because it’s important. Here’s how America currently works:

Someone on the left says something bad is going to happen and we need to stop it before it happens. Nobody listens.
The thing happens. Then, the people who were warned, who also knew it would likely happen but didn’t want to stop the thing, say, “Nobody could have anticipated…”

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