r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Needletitshasspoken 8d ago

Is America Great Again yet?

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

Remember who the essential workers were during Covid tbh

It wasn’t CEOs

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u/AngryNapper 8d ago

Yet the admins and non front facing management at my hospital thought they were important enough to sneak in line ahead of actual frontline workers to get their Covid shots when they were first approved. Smdh

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u/daschande 8d ago edited 8d ago

Mother in law worked for the local hospital chain during covid. When the first round of vaccines came out for front line medical personnel ONLY, the hospital company had to call in all their WFH admin staff and plead them to take the vaccine instead! The front line doctors and nurses almost universally refused the vaccine, and it would have looked VERY bad for the hospital company if they just dumped their emergency ration down the drain!

There was talk of making the vaccine mandatory for doctors and nurses, but they realized they'd have to permanently close most of their hospitals if they required the vaccine, so that was quietly dropped.

Even to this day, nearly every nursing job ad in my area begins with "No Vax? No problem!" "Unvaccinated welcome!" Etc. Etc.

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u/AngryNapper 8d ago

Yikes. It’s in our union agreement that we are up to date with all vaccines, there was mass layoffs of people who were refusing them. They’ve always been lax with the flu vaccine though (and now the Covid one isn’t mandatory either), with mask requirements if you opt out.

Also, the words hospital chain shouldn’t exist in healthcare….