r/nursing - EVERYONE here in this sub should be aware of large attempts in Congress right now to cap nurse (especially travel nurse) pay...as if that will fix our staffing issues 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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As a union nurse (1199) I can assure you all that the travelers making lots of money is NOT the problem, and is only happening rn because for the first time in decades, it is an area where workers are so desperately needed, yet so scarce, that they can basically name their rate and have it honored. This is scaring the shit out of the people at the top, and they want to nip it in the bud before other peasants start to catch on

Edit: Here's a direct link for ppl who don't want to go to R*DIT

https://welch.house.gov/sites/welch.house.gov/files/WH%20Nurse%20Staffing.pdf

If you have a SLAY KWEEN (D) rep or a Marjorie Taylor Green adjacent chud rep(R), they are both likely on this

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Small microcosms of it yeah, but tbh we will have a moment like it when China decides to take Taiwan or a trade port from the US and the rest of the world doesn't care and tells the US to sit down.

    • Oldreader [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I've followed several Suez moments where US power was decisively broken, forever. Now I hear it hasn't happened yet?

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I could be wrong in how I'm applying it but I've always been under the assumption that a suez moment is when a event occurs that fully cements the collapse of a nation and its fall from geopolitical dominance (I see the US currently slipping but they've yet to fully fall until all the US military bases lay abandoned and rotting imo)

        • Oldreader [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          I heard Trump's attempted withdrawal from Syria that was blocked by the Pentagon was a Suez moment. His attempted withdrawal from Germany that was blocked by the Pentagon was a Suez moment. Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was definitely a Suez moment. But it's going to happen real soon now?

          If this dang website had a search function I'd find all the posts.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Tbh those are also good moments as well indicating US collapse, though tbh I think for me the moment will be when a nation (prolly China) says straight to the US "fuck you this is mine now fuck off" and the US just accepts it (and it has to be something big like Taiwan or the islands of the south china sea and surrounding region.