Elon Musk: “A bunch of money is going out from the Social Security…”

“Well, yeah, I guess the question, right. I mean, I get the Social Security Administration is dumb, but are they paying these people? Are they that dumb? I don't know. A bunch of money is going out from the Social Security Administration and in fact, from all entitlements programs. 76 billion in waste in, like seven years. That's 10 billion a year. Well, I think the fraudulent payments, the rough estimate from General Government Accountability offices is over $500 billion afford a year.” (19:45–19:51)

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