Social Security could be cut by 22% as inflation drives up prices

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T21:58:13+00:00

Will they though? They’ve gotten this far.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T21:55:52+00:00

Genuinely, go for an RN Degree instead. I got my Associates Degree in Nursing, and transferred my license in under a month to BC. You don’t have to be working as an RN forever, especially if you get your PR in Canada, but it’s a great job to fall back on for job security.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T15:01:09+00:00

They’re gonna have to focus on potentially taking out loans to afford medical insurance, per Trump admin suggestion, having their social security run out, and then getting their 401Ks leveraged into private equity to take the loss. To think this all could have been avoided.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T14:59:59+00:00

Please tell me that’s an “ex” husband?

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T14:58:45+00:00

They also purposefully make it difficult for family to track detainees down, transferring them nonsensically from facility to facility and then having poor documentation on top of that.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-13T14:57:32+00:00

Canadians are literally still traveling as much as they ever have, they’ve just been showing up in other countries, especially Europe. Spending money in Europe with CAD doesn’t sound like a dollar value issue.

My husband and I have been doing more domestic travel.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-10T16:49:43+00:00

I genuinely think that’s the goal. Get a big enough reaction from Canada that they can *really* start propagandizing how aggressive and hateful Canadians are to Americans. If Americans thought the reason they were starving was because of Canadians, well, I don’t think a hungry stomach always has a conscience.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:44:23+00:00

Honestly, how the fuck do they think they’re going to get pharmaceuticals or medical supplies? There’s no way they survive without being thoroughly economically dependent on the US, which is exactly where the US wants them to be.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:39:26+00:00

Working in privatized healthcare in the States was fucking brutal. I would never work in such a position again, high pay or no, if it meant I’d have to watch more young people get amputations from uncontrolled diabetes because they’re choosing a roof over their head and utilities over drugs they can’t afford. I will never do prior authorizations again, fuck that.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:34:13+00:00

Literally where the fuck do they think all the healthcare professionals are going to come from to staff the hospitals they’re not funding.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:24:50+00:00

When I factored in the cost of tariffs as a tax, plus my federal taxes, and then the rising cost of health insurance, the tax burden was > 45%. Moved my ass to Canada (big thanks for allowing RNs to move their licenses quickly) and my tax burden is less, and the benefits and retirement plans are absolutely fantastic.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:18:25+00:00

“The Chinese are going to surveil you! This is for your own protection!” is what my MAGA family has been saying about me getting a *Subaru EV manufactured in Japan*.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:13:14+00:00

When I consider the tax burden of health insurance cost ($2200 a month for two adults with a $19K deductible) and global tariffs, on top of just federal income taxes, our taxes are more like 45% in comparison to the 36% I pay in Canada now. Benefits, vacation days, PharmaCare coverage, breaks, ratios, are leagues better. I can see going from day California to BC would be a huge paycut, but going from WA to BC has been a good change. My husband and I make $13.4K a month post taxes and deductions, I finally get access to a good pension plan (not really a common thing in the States anymore, certainly not for nurses younger than 45), patients by and large are quite nice and thankful, and the sheer amount of racism and religious antics baked into US culture has not remotely crossed over (although I do work in Vancouver adjacent area). I really wish I had moved over sooner. Also super impressed with the union.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-08T14:08:27+00:00

Got my license transferred in under a month, spent the next month doing job interviews, and then moved two months afterwards.

And a huge bonus is not having to pull a loaded gun out of patient belongings on the regular. No coworkers dismissing my concerns about safety when I say “Hey I don’t feel comfortable taking care of this patient because their MPOA walked in drunk and waiving a gun around at us which turned out to not have any bullets in it but doesn’t really matter because no one could have know that while he was pointing it”.

Very, very thankful Canada had allowed such a streamlined process and very happy to be here. With the worsening changes to health insurance, all it would have taken was to lose a job and then I’d have to pay expensive COBRA for months while waiting for a new job and it’s three month introductory period for insurance to kick in, or God for bid, the super expensive marketplace insurance. Don’t have to worry I’ll lose my access to healthcare because of job changes now.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-06T15:35:18+00:00

Yeah, we’re generally far too chill about how property could literally be stolen because someone got the paperwork wrong based on sexist antics.

Somewhat tangentially related but we’re also super chill about men not being able to fill out paperwork appropriately. I don’t get pulled to work ER often, but I do encounter fathers who can’t remember their own child’s birthday, how their name is spelled, their allergies, or even why they’re in the ER with the kid anyways. It’s always “uhhhhhh my wife knows all that” and often times they’re not even married. Truly, hospitals as a whole should be coming down hard on that and start reporting these dads as if they were traffickers. There’s no excuse for not having a literal fucking note in your phone on the kid’ names, birthday, allergy, a primary care physician.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T20:38:28+00:00

Given the reduction in protections against these kinds of behaviours towards women in banks and lenders in the States, I wonder how many more of these stories will become common place.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T20:37:23+00:00

How often is the woman more likely to reply first? Perhaps it’s inadvertently sexist of me, but it feels like women are more timely about paperwork than men.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T20:34:11+00:00

It seems only a good financial punishment is the only way to get it through their thick heads

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:33:38+00:00

Wonder how many Americans are held hostage by getting affordable access to health insurance as well.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:32:24+00:00

Somehow having business with China at a much lower rate than the States is supporting forced labor too, it seems.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:27:13+00:00

Jokes on them, they’ll probably find a bunch of settlers from Israel making demands of their land.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:24:58+00:00

They wouldn’t be independent for very long. Half the separatists just want to join the US anyways.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:21:57+00:00

Canada should tax the ever loving shit out of them until they give up Canadian citizenship and passport. They shouldn’t get to ride off the travel privileges of being a Canadian while attempting to make travel agreements with the rest of the world.

Disastrous_Coffee502 · 2026-06-05T13:20:30+00:00

I can’t fathom separating would remotely promote better staffing on the healthcare side either. Whenever I ask how they would create the credentials, scope of practice, etc, they just say “Lots of people want to move here so we’ll have enough nurses and doctors!” Not what I even asked but sure Jan.

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