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posted by martyb on Monday November 13 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-up dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday November 13 2017, @07:22PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday November 13 2017, @07:22PM (#596388)

    The D's tail wagged the party, the R's tail finally obeyed the party. That is how and why I see the R's as being better than the D's - this time around, at least.

    Again, it depends on your definition of "better". If you just mean "winning the 2016 election", then yep, the GOP's system worked wonders for them, even if it was entirely accidental (Trump is NOT who the party insiders wanted). However, and this remains to be seen, if you mean "winning elections long term", it might not: there's indications that Trumpism is seriously splitting the party apart, with several long-time GOP members like Jeff Flake and John Boehner retiring and criticizing the party, and the GOP did not do well in the election last week either, especially in Virginia. Of course, the DNC has been having its own little civil war in the wake of the '16 election too, so it remains to be seen which one will do better in '18 and '20. If Trump is a 1-term President and the DNC takes over both branches in '20, then I'd say it didn't turn out well for the GOP at all.

    Much is made of our nation being a "democratic" republic. When any party acts as the D's did in this election, they put the lie to that "democratic" bullshit.

    Perhaps, but I'd also say that our entire election system isn't all that "democratic" to begin with. The Electoral College is inherently un-democratic, as the President isn't even elected by the people at all, but by unelected "Electors", though they're supposed to (and usually do, but not always [wikipedia.org]) vote according to the votes in their state, but there again, this means people in Wyoming and Rhode Island have more power per vote than people in California and Texas, and this is by design. The way Congressional districts are chosen is also completely undemocratic and downright rigged. Besides, "The Orville" just had a pretty funny episode about why direct democracy isn't such a hot idea.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @10:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @10:04PM (#596502)

    Virginia had a democrat governor, and they got another. This isn't a gain. It's just keeping a seat.

    The new governor won the state by less than Hillary won the state. So, he still won, but the margin of victory was lower.

    To say that the GOP did not do well in the election last week is thus wrong. They did better than expected for that election.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @10:10PM (#596508)

    States have the constitutional right to choose electors as they wish:

    * by lottery
    * by auction
    * the governor picks
    * the state supreme court picks
    * the state legislature picks
    * first-past-the-post voting (normal)
    * approval voting
    * ranked voting
    * the state's members of the US congress are automatically the electors

    That last one would be a parliament. If all the states did that, then the US congress would effectively be a US parliament.