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When America abandons the poor, the whole world should be alarmed...
In an act that should go down in the modern history of state cynicism, President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025 what he calls "One Big, Beautiful Bill," a budget bill that cuts $930 billion from Medicare and Medicaid and leaves over 17 million Americans without health insurance. This is not just an economic law, it is a political manifesto against the most vulnerable segments of society.
If a budget is, as they say, a "moral document," then this is a document of rotten morality. With these measures, the US of 2025 returns to an era where poverty is punished, where the right to health care is seen as a luxury, and where millions of citizens will have to work not for a living, but for survival.
This is nothing new; the war on the poor in America has always been there, disguised as fiscal policy, as "reform" or "individual responsibility." But Trump has removed all disguises. He did not start this war, but he is taking it to an extreme that recalls the darkest ages of American laissez-faire.
Historically, figures like Henry Ford and Ronald Reagan have opposed welfare. But none has dared to so openly and arrogantly attack the minimum support for the weakest. Trump sees this as a triumph of his elitist and insensitive politics, while his congressional aides call it a “new golden age.”
Indeed, this is an era of shame.
This situation is not just an American issue. The message this movement sends around the world is dangerous: the state no longer has responsibility for its citizens. At a time when global crises; economic, climate, and health are growing, the idea that governments are retreating from guaranteeing basic rights is ruinous.
For the Balkans, for Albania, for every developing country that breathes through the American example, this is an alarm signal: extreme neoliberalism does not bring progress, but social destabilization. When our leaders talk about "reforms like in America", let us remember this moment. To be poor in Trump's America means to be invisible.
In this sense, this editorial is more than a critique. It is a call to reflect, as voters, as citizens, as people. Because what is happening today in the US is a dress rehearsal for our tomorrow./ Pamphlet
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