mowotlarx

mowotlarx t1_j3nlaa5 wrote

They can. These hospital systems can both afford to increase pay, maintain benefits and hire more nurses. They choose not to because of pure unchecked corporate greed wherein their boards demand skyrocketing profits year after year. They don't care about quality of service at the top, they care about how many millions of dollars in bonuses they can give themselves while they thank their ICU unit with a pizza party.

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mowotlarx t1_j3nl0dx wrote

Ethics? How ethical is it that the CEOs of the two health care systems in this strike are making millions of dollars in salary annually with bonuses. That's fucking unethical. These health systems have plenty of money to go around to increase worker pay for the people who do care work and hire more of them for safe staffing. They can. They choose not to because of pure top down greed.

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mowotlarx t1_j3nkqwi wrote

>Not discrediting his hard work and determination it took to get there but what exactly are they striking for?

You literally discredited him in the second half of your sentence. What a bad faith argument. Hospital nurses break their fucking backs with limited staff and resources to care for people, and you trot out some lazy personal anecdote?

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mowotlarx t1_j38s143 wrote

The "she ran into my fist" defence probably won't work for him. Objectively, NYPD are supposed to be trained in de-escalation, specifically tactics that can't kill people (head punches kill people, btw?) to subdue someone. This guy didn't do that. He has a history of abuse and complaints. There is no both sides to this.

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mowotlarx t1_j26ng3q wrote

>To my immigrant ears,

Oh give me a fucking break with this. There are immigrant politicians in this city who have always voted and participated in elections. And they went on to get elected and fight like hell for their community. Yang has no excuse. He never showed any interest in this city or in his own neighborhood. That's the reason many people didn't even know he lived here - he was a non entity in local politics and policy. It's embarrassing you can't see him for the phony he is.

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mowotlarx t1_j26mhf3 wrote

Yang came in 4th place. Despite beginning the race with the most name recognition. He was a bad candidate. The first time he ever voted in a NYC mayoral primary and election was for himself despite living here almost two decades. He never once participated in local politics or elections. I don't know how anyone could take him seriously.

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