I work for a healthcare system. You should see the scathing comments from long-term employees. People are losing their fear of repercussions.It's not just nurses and healthcare. It's teachers and education. It's hospitality workers and restaurants and the wage carve out for tipped workers. It's office workers refusing to return to the office when they can do a perfectly good job from home. It's people whose wages have been flat in real dollars for decades. It's people who have gotten raises yet costs have escalated out of control, housing, insurance and now everything.I'm one of these people. Every raise I got in the last ten years has been eaten up by an increase in health care premiums. I now pay $9000 a year! Imagine what we could if that money was pumped back into the real economy.The problem is actually very simple.  It began with Reagan and the continuing Republican tax cuts, legislation and jurisprudence - 40 years of putting the screws to working people and favoring the top.The result is entirely predictable. A fractured society leading to factionalism and now civil unrest. Public infrastructure starved for investment. State and national governance starved for investment and now in disarray. All gains having gone to the top. The nursing crisis is just one symptom.When will people get the message that they are being screwed and start voting for the party that cares about them? Take 2 minutes to compare the R and D platforms.  Says it all.

I work for a healthcare system. You should see the scathing comments from long-term employees. People are losing their fear of repercussions.It's not just nurses and healthcare. It's teachers and education. It's hospitality workers and restaurants and the wage carve out for tipped workers. It's office workers refusing to return to the office when they can do a perfectly good job from home. It's people whose wages have been flat in real dollars for decades. It's people who have gotten raises yet costs have escalated out of control, housing, insurance and now everything.I'm one of these people. Every raise I got in the last ten years has been eaten up by an increase in health care premiums. I now pay $9000 a year! Imagine what we could if that money was pumped back into the real economy.The problem is actually very simple.  It began with Reagan and the continuing Republican tax cuts, legislation and jurisprudence - 40 years of putting the screws to working people and favoring the top.The result is entirely predictable. A fractured society leading to factionalism and now civil unrest. Public infrastructure starved for investment. State and national governance starved for investment and now in disarray. All gains having gone to the top. The nursing crisis is just one symptom.When will people get the message that they are being screwed and start voting for the party that cares about them? Take 2 minutes to compare the R and D platforms.  Says it all.

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