At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain.”
“She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said.
“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”
Literally anyone who is relying on those funds because they don’t have a pension or savings will be wondering where the fuck it is when it doesn’t get deposited on time.
It’s also laughable to suggest that old people trust the government en masse; a lot of those people were anti-government back in the day and probably didn’t change much. My own parents are nearly 70, they definitely don’t trust the government.
They were raised by people who went through the depression. “Trust the government” with what is rightfully their money is laughable.
Yeah, my grandma was born in 1931. She’s still alive; she has pretty bad dementia now, but when I was a teenager she didn’t trust the government either.
You know, the people who remember the Vietnam War, Nixon’s pardon, and the Tuskegee Syphilis study. They definitely trust the government.
They don’t remember shit because of all the lead in the air up until the '80s.
They trust the cheques to come on time because they always have. They don’t “trust the government” in any broad sense.