July 11, 2025 TweetLetters to the Editor: July 11, 2025The true pictureOpen letter to Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano:Poverty does not equate with stupidity, Mr. Bisignano. It is possible to live in moderate comfort, if frugally, on Social Security — if you have a mortgage-free house and a paid-for car, and earn the Social Security maximum. A simple, informative, accurate notification of benefit changes, like those traditionally sent by the Social Security Administration, will continue to be welcome. Passage of the “big, beautiful bill,” with all of its cruel, ugly provisions, tells us everything about what America is becoming. Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will extend the cruelty to U.S. citizens who will lose their health care coverage through Medicaid.