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One Leg Up On News 2-19-25: Americans Should Not Want China or DOGE to ‘Rummage’ Through Social Security Data · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, what did you
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  Speaker 1: rummage through today? On the one like up network? I
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  Speaker 1: have that question for you, what did you rummage through today?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think I'd be doing a daily
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  Speaker 1: little hit here, even if I don't have any guests.
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  Speaker 1: But I just feel very strongly that we have to
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  Speaker 1: keep updating you on the one like up on news
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  Speaker 1: and side of things with everything going on. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: into social Security in a second, because it was a
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  Speaker 1: big debate on X last night between Elon Musk and
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  Speaker 1: Senator John Fetterman where Fetterman says that he's rummaging through
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  Speaker 1: elon is People's data, and look, I don't think Doge
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  Speaker 1: should be having our social security data. I get the
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  Speaker 1: intention here, but it doesn't it's not American. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have anybody rummaging through anybody's data. It's so funny because
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  Speaker 1: isn't the reason why we didn't want TikTok as a
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  Speaker 1: you know, the politicians didn't want TikTok, and even Trump
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  Speaker 1: has waivered on that, and I still think he wants
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  Speaker 1: to get TikTok off of China's teat if you will.
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  Speaker 1: It's because we don't want their We don't want people's
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  Speaker 1: data being rummaged through, not by China, not by Doge,
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  Speaker 1: not by anybody. So what is that play here? There's
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine million people on Social Security according to CNED,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna just the federal judges are gonna let
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  Speaker 1: them go through our data. Yeah, that's just horrible. And
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  Speaker 1: I just see in Newsweek there's a White Plain Social
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  Speaker 1: Security hearing office in New York that could be closed
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  Speaker 1: as of May thirty. First fortune this story out. So
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  Speaker 1: many Americans die from COVID. It's boosting Social Security to
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  Speaker 1: the tune of two hundred and five billion dollars. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. There's a lot of money at stake here,
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  Speaker 1: and that maybe some dead people are still getting Social Security,
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  Speaker 1: which I find mind boggling. And I think dogs can
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  Speaker 1: rummage through whatever they want, but not people's data. Not
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  Speaker 1: people's data. That's not how we have one leg up
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  Speaker 1: for the country. Is it by simply rummaging through that?
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  Speaker 1: That that's not how we work as America. You know,
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  Speaker 1: data mining is a real thing, but but it shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be done by our federal government in this way. I
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  Speaker 1: do believe that we can send to everybody having our
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  Speaker 1: data at the end of the day. But when you
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  Speaker 1: make it known, when you go out of your way,
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  Speaker 1: that's the word I'm trying to say, when you go
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  Speaker 1: out of your way to say, hey, guess what, uh
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  Speaker 1: we want your data, we want to rummage through your data,
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  Speaker 1: as Vetterman is said, and as uh mister Elon Musk
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  Speaker 1: has rebuffed, I guess the word I'm trying to look
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  Speaker 1: for here. It's not right. Nobody should be rummaging through
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  Speaker 1: anything of privacy. And then I see today that Elon's
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  Speaker 1: asking Trump for five thousand dollars. I mean, did you
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  Speaker 1: hear about this story? He's gonna ask him for five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars and as a doge dividend for every American,
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  Speaker 1: which will costs more than one point sixty seventy five
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars. A doged dividend would distribute a refund check
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  Speaker 1: to every American citizen. This article, by the way, coming
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  Speaker 1: from Baller Alert. And we could use extra money, but
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  Speaker 1: if we gave each person five thousand dollars, it will
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  Speaker 1: cost one point sixty five seventy five trillion dollars forty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the total federal budget. Now, yes, I've said before,
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  Speaker 1: we need to bring money back into the country. We
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  Speaker 1: need to give money back to Americans, not kick our
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  Speaker 1: doors out if we don't pay a certain tax on time.
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  Speaker 1: That concept, that approach doesn't sit right with me either.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we all enjoyed that payout during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Remember all those paychecks during COVID. We love that we
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  Speaker 1: were thriving during that. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what Elon's doing through
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  Speaker 1: the day aid of mining and the rummaging and now
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  Speaker 1: asking Trump for this dividend which could cost one point
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven four trillion dollars. We got a thing smarter,
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  Speaker 1: and I get if a limiting government waste could create
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  Speaker 1: those funds, that would be great. Let's eliminate the waste
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  Speaker 1: first and not touch those security Let's get rid of
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  Speaker 1: what Trump claimed famously but in the air conditioned offices
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  Speaker 1: who basically don't care about the American people. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: rid of those people first. But let's not touch or
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  Speaker 1: rummage through our data, Elon Musk, because then you're starting
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  Speaker 1: to violate privacy. And I get it. We consent to
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  Speaker 1: privacy all the time, Bob. You know invasion of privacy
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  Speaker 1: all the time with our phones and all that. In
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  Speaker 1: this context, it's touching a very sensitive issue which impacts
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  Speaker 1: the retired elderly over sixty five. That doesn't mean they're older,
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  Speaker 1: but elderly by the way, and they're disabled. And I've
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  Speaker 1: said before, if you want to make changes with DOGE,
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  Speaker 1: you do it in a way that doesn't impact the
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  Speaker 1: disabled community firstly, and doesn't impact social security. And going
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  Speaker 1: through this data and even the judge allowing it to
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  Speaker 1: go through, that's disturbing too. Now going through data is
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  Speaker 1: not like you know, bail reform here in New York, No,
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  Speaker 1: not where where a criminal who's let out time after
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  Speaker 1: time commits another crime then let out. That's different. But
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  Speaker 1: if these judges want to truly be doing just things,
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  Speaker 1: it should be to protect the American people and Social
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  Speaker 1: Security recipients, not let DOGE get their hands on our data.
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  Speaker 1: That will not help us have one leg up in
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  Speaker 1: this country. Do I want dividends for Americans after we
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  Speaker 1: dole out so much for foreign countries? Yes? Do I
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  Speaker 1: want to get rid of whoever is not alive getting
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  Speaker 1: Social Security? You know what I mean? Getting rid of
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  Speaker 1: those on the roles if you will, yes, but be
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  Speaker 1: precise with it. Don't just target every living and dead
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  Speaker 1: person that you believe is on Social Security. That's just
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  Speaker 1: going to cause chaos, confusion, concern, and it truly is
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  Speaker 1: an invasion of privacy. So Elon, I appreciate you. I
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  Speaker 1: love that you're trying to cut waste, but there's ways
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and rummaging, as Senator Fetterman has said,
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  Speaker 1: is not the answer either. We've gotta things smarter about
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  Speaker 1: that for the sake of the safety of the Americans
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  Speaker 1: who rightly receive Social Security. And you know, I do
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  Speaker 1: believe social Security can be a lifeblood for Americans that
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  Speaker 1: need it, and their data shouldn't be the cost they
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  Speaker 1: pay to receive these checks. Figure out a different way, don't,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think Elon can dodge this one. On
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