Step 1. Break the thing.

Step 2. Blame the most convenient scapegoat.

Step 3. Eliminate the thing.

Step 4. Transfer money from the thing into your own pockets indirectly through corruption, emoluments, fraud, and self-serving no-bid contracts.

Updated title: "Social Security Backtracks on DOGE Phone Service Cuts After Media Report"

A few things get saved by media attention, but the firehose of sometimes-criminal actions mostly get by without being noticed.

If Musk indemnifies the U.S. for defaulted SS payments, I could get on board with this.