true or false?

At my hospital recently a lot of staff in all departments, not just OB, have been getting canceled or floated due to low census. One unit last week had an estimated 60 cancellation/floats in one week. The hospital says this is due to the "downturn in the entire economy." They are also not just canceling staff but increasing the nurse to pt ratios and the charge nurses are having to take full assignments despite the fact there are no techs or sec's on. Admin tells us there is a drop in census in hospitals all over the country now. Have you all found this to be true at your hospitals? I feel like there are so many salaried administration types (excluding nurse managers) that are not on the "front lines" that continue to work their worthless 9-5 positions (maybe that was too harsh) while nurses get stretched dangerously thin and they cut staff in other vital depts such as laundry so you can't even get any linens delivered for over 24 hours because there literally isn't anyone to bring it so your patients lay there on dirty, bloody sheets and you try your best to cover the blood with chux and apologize over and over. And how does admin explain babies having no shirts or blankets after they are just born because there are none! It's getting absurd! That was a little ranting...sorry. What have been your experiences?