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Claiming a shortage of workers for the hospitality industry, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has requested and obtained permission to hire 70 foreign workers. The claim of a shortage of available workers is disputed:
'"We currently have 5,136 qualified candidates in Palm Beach County for various hospitality positions listed in the Employ Florida state jobs database," CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said Friday.'
70 is a slight increase over last year, when 64 foreign workers were hired.
"Making America Great Again" by hiring foreigners? Perhaps what is required is higher pay, not foreigners.
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Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:32PM (10 children)
Almost all politicians are slimy; that's just the way our system works (or non-works). Honest people won't go far in politics. That being said, T is damaging our reputation overseas by having the attention span of a goldfish. Venezuela's neighbors used to be fairly friendly to the US. But when T threatened to invade Venezuela, they turned and backed Venezuela instead.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @05:36PM (9 children)
Old reputation: basically a doormat that anybody could walk all over, trying desperately to buy friends
New reputation: the 800-pound gorilla you must respect
Nobody respected the old America. Ripping off the USA was a game that every country did and enjoyed.
Not that he needs it, and you don't see it on CNN, but oddly Trump actually has adoring crowds everywhere he goes in Asia. That even includes China! It's weird as fuck actually, but it kind of makes sense. Chinese people consider Trump to be strong, and thus worthy of respect.
Trump is succeeding with the leaders too. A great example is that China just dropped the very 1-sided requirements they had for foreign tech transfer and for joint ownership to be majority-Chinese. It used to be that doing business in China meant you were limited to 49% ownership and you couldn't hold back your trade secrets. Trump drops by for a visit, and the new policy is announced right after he leaves.
Trump has also helped improve relations between Japan and South Korea.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday November 13 2017, @05:58PM (4 children)
Where's the Facepalm mod when I need it?
Step away from Fox (or the white house), and read some foreign media for a change.
(Score: 5, Touché) by aristarchus on Monday November 13 2017, @06:46PM
Bob, you are less super in my estimation, since, apparently,
you seem to think that Fox viewers and Trumpists can read. A "tweet" is a wall of text to them, I tell you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:49PM (2 children)
Foreign media is often government controlled. It represents not what the government or people think, but what the government wants an audience to think. If you read the English-language version, that audience is often mostly intended to be Americans.
Foreign media can be lazy. Parroting CNN is easier than doing actual work.
Ignoring those credibility problems... so what if they hate us? The goal is not to be liked. The goal is to maximize American advantage in the world. Only rarely does that coincide with being liked.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 13 2017, @10:15PM (1 child)
> Foreign media is often government controlled. It represents not what the government or people think, but what the government wants an audience to think.
Holy fuck you have no clue on an epic scale...
> If you read the English-language version, that audience is often mostly intended to be Americans.
I'm sure the brits will be glad to learn that. The Indians and a third of Africa too!
> Parroting CNN is easier than doing actual work.
Doesn't that contradict your first statement?
> The goal is not to be liked. The goal is to maximize American advantage in the world. Only rarely does that coincide with being liked.
Not disagreeing there, but ...
> so what if they hate us?
I guess you've never had true friends. You'll recognize if you meet one: actually telling you something you should notice you're doing wrong, even if they know you don't like to hear it. It's a bit hard to understand for someone who's both acting like a bully (ask Saddam) and yet has an unquestionable charisma...
I guess you might relate that to BLM: people need the police, mostly respect the police, sometime envy the courage and the heroes ... but they have to point out that part of it is perfectible, since beating up brown people, pigging out, or taking bribes, does look bad. The US is the World's police.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:50PM
it's almost like your anon friend is a paid shill
you wont get through to him because hes getting paid to post his stuff. unless he feels bad about the money, if so then he'll just stop posting for a while until he needs to be someones bitch again.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Monday November 13 2017, @08:36PM (3 children)
Old reputation: gorilla of plus-size weight willing to lie/cheat to get its way in invading wherever it wants
New reputation: confused octopus that each hand does whatever it wants and is corrupt in each arm and is in the process of making America a police state where it spies on everyone, takes away all freedoms and rights, can arrest anyone for any reason and hold them without counsel, control freak controlling ALL communication....
....hmmmm....
What else? Any Americans here who can add to the list? :)
No one respects America STILL because the world sees you as ignorant, entitled, rude and money grubbing (even your Prez who hires Mexicans because they're cheap while blowing out his ass that doing THAT is wrong and he's going to stop it.
America is a world joke and is deserving of disrespect because of these things.
Americans need to start electing people who earn respect, and start acting respectful inside AND OUTSIDE it's borders.
Act respectful and honest, and you will, maybe, earn respect.
Be rude and money grubbing and you are American.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Monday November 13 2017, @09:14PM
And here I am out of mod points...please accept a virtual +1.
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:52PM (1 child)
The gorilla gets respect... but whatever. The goal is power, influence, control, dominance, etc.
Sometimes it pays to be rude.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday November 13 2017, @10:03PM
But for how long? The biggest bully on the playground gets respect of a sort, but after he's gotten fat and lazy from stealing everyone's lunches, eventually some of the scrappier victims are going to gang up on him, beat the shit out of him, and put him in the hospital for a while. You're shortsighted and stupid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...