Lies of the Big Beautiful Bill

I have collected meager benefits from medicare since retiring in 2019.  I am a 71 year old Japanese American elder, living in Huichin, aka Oakland, since 1995.  Already, my rent is going up to $1139.07 in August.  My health insurance doesn’t include pharmacy services.  I pay nothing now, but am limited to the cheapest referrals for doctor and dentists visits.  My retirement money is less than $2,000.00 and my husband's is less than $700.00.  So what’s wrong with this picture?  

The big beautiful bill is really a baaaad brutal beat down of poor people.  President cheezeit, to curry favor and make nice with billionaires, is cutting out the only health care in USA.  Claiming that “waste fraud abuse” is rampant, the party of the extremely rich will be the beneficiaries of our monetary losses in receiving health care.  19-64 year old able bodied adults - 4.8 million people will soon lose medical, medicaid, and medicare, SNAP.   

Prez cheezeit says he won’t touch the medicare program. LIES LIES LIES. According to website American Prospect, these cuts “have forced nearly half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare, the health program for the elderly....Medicare is one of the programs that will face the axe, and the damage sums to $490 billion over the next ten years, starting in the next fiscal year that begins in October. While many of the safety-net cuts in the bill are delayed to help Republicans with their re-election campaigns, the Medicare cuts must begin next year."

Going back to the 1960’s, decades ago, cheezeit is using this same corrupted program where welfare recipients were under strict, unrealistic requirements to take classes in job preparation, find jobs and prove they are worthy of getting a pittance to survive.  The government didn’t take into account that many of the welfare recipients had children, were single mothers, survivors of domestic violence, disabled and elderly. Today its an exhibition of the system that has only gone backward, exposing their ignorance and dispassion. A multi pronged weapon against poor people, the government, is creating pandemonium and divide and conquer amongst all populations on turtle island.

What does it look like in the bay area?  Poor Magazine Homefulness, is a family of staunch and determination.  We are of color and poor and have been making our own decisions.  Decades ago, the sliding scale cafe and Decolonize Academy was launched in a world that treats the unhoused and poor as trash. Permanent housing was constructed and today filled with 20 plus residents, living free on native land back in deep east Huichin.

As an Alternative to the money based systems of health care and survival, POOR MAGAZINE started its own clinic in 1997. Through self determination and liberation, we now have doctors and dentists to do checkups FOR FREE. We are fighting for each other not at each other. We are determined to Fight for a self governed and free community with health clinics and more free food. There is a bottomless resource of those who are also feeling the future demise and are ready and available - hospital employees, nurses, health care workers, and in home care - waiting to be organized.