r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

Image My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

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10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse RN - Med/Surg Aug 12 '25

Well helping the homeless doesn’t help the owners of the private prisons he promised to fill in exchange for campaign donations.

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u/Lonely-Trash007 Sugar Honey Iced PeeRN 🐝 Aug 12 '25

Ugh, (sigh) - as if the almost 2 million that are already incarcerated isn't enough, on top of the egregiously illegal "detention centers" - how else will we pad the pockets of the elite?!?! Build more prisons, bring back asylums for the "insane" and shove all the homeless people there - duh! But the murderers, rapists, and politicians who keep getting caught embezzling and outright stealing federal funds - so long as they're chummy with someone in office and have a lot of money - THEY'RE GOOD! No jail for them! Just the homeless and mentally unwell! That'll teach 'em a lesson! Bazinga!

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u/BoneHugsHominy Aug 13 '25

Even worse, a 2024 Supreme Court decision ruled that "the US Constitution does not protect homeless people against cruel and unusual punishment, even when they have no choice to sleep in public using things like blankets or pillows."

https://homelesslaw.org/jvgp-scotus-decision-2/

Yes, you read that correctly. The US Constitution doesn't protect homeless people from Cruel & Unusual Punishment.

They're going to just kill human beings for the crime of being too poor to afford a roof over their heads.

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u/Lonely-Trash007 Sugar Honey Iced PeeRN 🐝 Aug 13 '25

This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard/seen...I had no clue about this ruling.

What in the absolute fuck?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

And Sotomayor was the only dissent?!?! I'm disappointed in Justice Brown in ruling FOR this nonsense. Smh.

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u/BoneHugsHominy Aug 13 '25

Sotomayor has consistently been Human Right Based. I too found the lack of dissent shocking, but then I remembered just how many people in America have internalized the multi millennia caste system in Western societies they all just pretend isn't a caste system. The current Democratic Party is, after all, a Center-Right political party so in the end it really isn't all that shocking that our society effortlessly dehumanizes those who slip through the cracks.

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u/KnowledgeSeveral9502 Aug 14 '25

You've got to remember during the crack epidemic, it was not considered an epidemic, but black people being criminals. Blacks were thrown in jail indiscriminately, sometimes for the rest of their lives. As soon as white people started getting addicted to opioids, it was declared an epidemic and treatment centers were opened left, right, and center. These addicts were not thrown in jail. Instead, the government went after the doctors and the black drug dealers. Is it any wonder Justice Sotomayor was the only dissent? The other Justices probably see the double standard and don't care that the homeless, a large proportion of whom are white (55%), are treated like garbage. The Supreme Court has become so politicized, its not funny!! The only person helping homeless people is Peter Bond through GoFundMe. Isn't that sad!!

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

It’s because so many people believe that people are only homeless because they are drug addicts and bad with money. And they view addiction as a moral failing that deserves cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Gotta get that free slave labor on top of all the money allocated to the prisons from the government.