We are supposed to be grateful that the government uses the money it forces us to hand over to it (much of it automatically "withheld" from your wages so you never even get to enjoy the pleasure of writing a check to the government) more efficiently, thanks to the efforts of DOGE.

Here's the latest example of that:

It's styled "digital access" for Social Security – the federal alms program that millions of older Americans have been rendered dependent upon via forcing them to make "contributions" to it over the entirety of their working lives. This having to "contribute" – to the financing of other people's alms in old age – having made it much harder to save and invest for their own needs in old age. Via this subtle and clever method, everyone – just about – is rendered dependent upon everyone else and – the important thing – dependent on the government for their alms in olde age.

Those alms are soon to become conditional – not merely on the age of the recipient.

In the name of "convenience" and "streamlining" things – i.e., in the name of making things more efficient –  alms-receivers will be expected to apply for a digital dole via what is styled the "My Social Security" account. This latter being an example of Orwellian etymology on par with the styling of being forced to hand over money as a "contribution." It is of course the federal government's account – not yours or mine. Those terms imply both possession and something organic and voluntarily agreed-to. My car, for instance, is my car. I chose to buy it – and could have chosen not to buy it. People aren't free to not "contribute" to Social Security – and will not be free to say no to a "My Social Security" account. Just as they weren't free to say no  to the "mask" they were expected to wear that wasn't their "mask," either.

It was the "mask" shoved at them by the government. By authoritarian collectivists. This term is preferable to the misleading right and left versions of the same thing.

The "My Social Security" thing is of a piece with the recently imposed internal passports – the so called REAL ID – Americans must now get and carry with them in order to be allowed to avail themselves of their former right to travel (by airplane, for now) within the United States and to be allowed to do other things which Americans once upon a time had a right to do without having to beg permission to do it or show "papers" to be allowed to do it.

"My Social Security" is likely to be optional at first – then required – like the REAL ID. It is also likely to be render alms payments conditional upon obedience, very much in the same way the issuers of these permission slips intended to use the "vaccine passports." These went away – but REAL ID came back.