{"id":2403482,"date":"2025-02-17T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-finds-oldest-human-since-the-iron-age-quietly-collecting-social-security-from-american-taxpayers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:47:41","slug":"elon-finds-oldest-human-since-the-iron-age-quietly-collecting-social-security-from-american-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-finds-oldest-human-since-the-iron-age-quietly-collecting-social-security-from-american-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Finds Oldest Human Since the Iron Age, Quietly Collecting Social Security from American Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-finds-oldest-human-since-the-iron-age-quietly-collecting-social-security-from-american-taxpayers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk recently made headlines by announcing that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency discovered individuals supposedly aged 150 on the Social \u2062Security rolls during a review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-detains-more-child-migrants-in-first-two-weeks-of-march-than-in-all-of-february\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Detains More Child Migrants In First Two Weeks Of March Than In All Of February\">government records<\/a>. Speaking alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Musk expressed\u2064 disbelief at the findings, questioning weather anyone could actually live to such an age, and suggesting that many of these people are likely deceased. He emphasized \u200bthe importance of addressing fraud and waste in\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-significance-of-georgia-senate-contests\/\" title=\"Historic Significance of Georgia Senate Contests\">government spending<\/a>, \u200dstating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">taxpayer dollars<\/a> shoudl be\u2063 managed prudently. Musk highlighted that the federal government loses billions annually \u200ddue \u200cto fraud, advocating for a sensible review of\u2063 expenditures to \u2064ensure they serve the public \u2062interest. The discussion also \u2062referenced \u2063ancient figures attributed with extreme ages, underscoring the improbability of finding\u200c living \u2064individuals on those Social Security \u200drecords.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk revealed on Tuesday that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency found some <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">supposed 150-year-olds<\/a> on the Social Security rolls.<\/p>\n<p>The multibillionaire entrepreneur and leader of the government reform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/operation-mockingbird-doge-exposing-deep-state-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project<\/a> said in remarks to the media in the Oval Office alongside President Donald Trump that his team is discovering some &ldquo;crazy things&rdquo; as they open Uncle Sam&rsquo;s books.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just a cursory examination of Social Security and we&rsquo;ve got people in there that are about 150 years old,&rdquo; Musk told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now, do you know anyone that&rsquo;s 150? I don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records, they&rsquo;re missing out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, you know, that&rsquo;s the case where, like, I think they&rsquo;re probably dead is my guess, or they should be very famous. One of the two,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script>  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump &amp; Elon Musk in the Oval Office: Full Remarks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gAuTb-yMNk4?start=422&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/78965-oldest-people-ever-lived-top-ten-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consults<\/a> the Guinness Book of World Records, one learns that the oldest person to ever live, at least in modern history, was 122-year-old Jeanne Calment, a French woman born in 1875 who died in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Knauss, an American, was 119 when she died in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>There are several other people born in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-catholic-and-historically-black-colleges-were-denied-covid-relief-the-naacp-and-its-georgetown-legal-team-fought-to-make-that-happen\/\" title=\"These Catholic And Historically Black Colleges Were Denied COVID Relief. The NAACP And Its Georgetown Legal Team Fought To Make That Happen.\">late nineteenth century<\/a> who managed to see the end of the twentieth or the start of the twenty-first.<\/p>\n<p>If we revert to the Iron Age, we see some even older people.<\/p>\n<p>Jehoiada, a priest in the kingdom of Judah during the reign of Ahaziah and Joash, died at 130.<\/p>\n<p>In the earliest centuries of mankind, we of course have Methuselah, who the book of Genesis tells us lived to be 969, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/answersingenesis.org\/bible-timeline\/genealogy\/did-adam-and-noah-really-live-over-900-years\/?srsltid=AfmBOooS7FY-3BDCYil-C6T-BgSivqhGgecGSTWnwzMRJZI-XkwCdjRt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ministry<\/a> Answers in Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>Other honorable mentions include Noah, who lived to 950, and our first father Adam himself, who lived to 930.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the possible yet unlikely scenario of Neo-Methuselah roaming the plains of Kansas or the hills of Tennessee on the dime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/instead-cutting-social-security-payments-trump-cut-taxes-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security<\/a>, the answer may lie in old-fashioned fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2018 and 2022, the federal government lost between $233 billion and $521 billion every single year due to fraud, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-24-105833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Government Accountability Office.<\/p>\n<p>Despite how much the media hates the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/doge-investigate-bureaucrats-become-wealthy-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOGE<\/a> effort, Musk told them that handling waste, fraud, and abuse is a matter of simple prudence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If money is spent badly, if your taxpayer dollars are not spent in a sensible and frugal manner, then that&rsquo;s not okay,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on the things that matter to the people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Musk repeated that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s just common sense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not draconian or radical,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s really just saying, let&rsquo;s look at each of the expenditures and say, is this actually in the best interest of the people, and if it is, it&rsquo;s approved, if it&rsquo;s not, we should think about it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Musk, the media certainly lacks such &ldquo;common sense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the people are certainly in agreement that we should not be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/poll-spike-number-americans-concerned-future-medicare-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sending checks<\/a> every month to long-dead people or corrupt actors fraudulently claiming their identities.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Speaking to the media in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, Musk mentioned that they are uncovering some &#8220;crazy things&#8221; while reviewing government records. He remarked, &#8220;A quick look at Social Security shows we have people who are about 150 years old. Do you know anyone that age? I don\u2019t.&#8221; He humorously suggested these individuals should be in the Guinness Book of World Records, adding, &#8220;I suspect they\u2019re probably deceased or should be very famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2403483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-17T135144.660.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32192,50528,50527],"class_list":["post-2403482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elon-musk","tag-iron-age","tag-oldest-human"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-17T135144.660.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403486,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403482\/revisions\/2403486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}