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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 wonkey_monkey on Monday November 13 2017, @05:07PM (6 children)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday November 13 2017, @05:07PM (#596307) Homepage

    Same question to you: what?

    Where did your "quote" come from?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Monday November 13 2017, @05:23PM (5 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday November 13 2017, @05:23PM (#596320)

    The quote is a summary of the apparent belief of the original commenter.

    For Trump to be responsible for the hiring practices of the Trump Mar A Lago Resort, he must be the hiring manager or general manager of the Trump Mar A Lago Resort, or at a CEO, or perhaps hold a seat on the Board of Directors of the Trump business.

    However, Donald Trump is not the hiring manager of the Trump Mar A Lago Resort, nor does he hold any administrative positions of the Trump company. Donald Trump is actually the President of the United States! It sounds silly, but seems apparent that the original commenter seems to have separated his consciousness from present reality some time around late 2016 - the last time Donald Trump had anything to do with the Trump business.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 13 2017, @06:05PM (4 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:05PM (#596344)

      > late 2016 - the last time Donald Trump had anything to do with the Trump business.

      For someone with no interest in it, he sure loves to give the Trump organization a lot of free advertising !
      That's clearly a terrible business move on his part.

      • (Score: 1, Troll) by linkdude64 on Monday November 13 2017, @06:25PM (3 children)

        by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:25PM (#596356)

        "For someone with no interest in it, he sure loves to give the Trump organization a lot of free advertising !"

        Whether or not he has "interest" in Trump MarALago's hiring practices, or in SpaceX, or in Russia, is completely irrelevant; he has no control over any of them.

        "That's clearly a terrible business move on his part."

        What business? Donald Trump does not run a business, he is the President of the United States. It's like you are hallucinating or something - every time you see Trump at the podium of the White House, instead of the Presidential Seal, your mind substitutes it for a pen graph of quarterly revenues and what impact on costs the new carpet-cleaning company had on its bottom line. Every time Trump takes off in Air Force One flying to an Air Force base for some classified intelligence briefing, you instead see Trump climbing into a mid-level Mercedes Benz and driving himself to a moderately-furnished apartment in a trendy part of town. I really cannot fathom what is going on with you.
        Donald Trump is not a hiring manager or marketing rep for Trump Mar A Lago Resort, he is the President of the United States, and has absolutely nothing to do with Trump Mar A Lago Resort's hiring or business practices and policies.

        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday November 13 2017, @06:49PM (1 child)

          by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 13 2017, @06:49PM (#596370)

          Step 1: read the comment you're replying to.

          President Trump, since Jan 20th, has said many times that the Trump hotels and the Mar-a-Lago resort are fantastic places. You can find that information.
          You contend that he has no business relationship whatsoever with the Trump organization. Taking that at face value, I'm asking why he would give them free advertising. Famous people get paid for endorsements, so giving that for free is a bad business decision.

          Does that make sense? Can you get out of your bubble of stories you tell yourself about other people, and understand what you are being told?

          The fact that you are absolutely delusional about Trump's continuous relationship with, and influence on, his companies, doesn't even factor in this.

          • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday November 13 2017, @09:35PM

            by linkdude64 (5482) on Monday November 13 2017, @09:35PM (#596480)

            President Trump, since Jan 20th, has said many times that the Trump hotels and the Mar-a-Lago resort are fantastic places. You can find that information.

            The moment you, the democratic party, or the MSM can prove that he is directly profiting from saying so, and that he is not simply speaking his honest belief, is the moment I will admit I was wrong. If anything, he has tarnished the Trump image by outright insulting some of the most powerful people and organizations in the world. Hillary got $1.2bn in campaign donations because she played by the book. Trump got $500m because he appealed to "poor stupid rednecks." Profit and brand image was very obviously not a sole motive from the start.

            The fact that you are absolutely delusional about Trump's continuous relationship with, and influence on, his companies, doesn't even factor in this.

            Nobody would hire an Ad Agency who lambasted them and their products, would they? Trump made the company so they share a name, he's the President, so the company's image correlates with his popularity. His much more frequently inflammatory actions and statements toward the MSM, who controls the radiowaves he is "advertising" on, if anything, supports the opposite position.

        • (Score: 4, Touché) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday November 13 2017, @09:46PM

          by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday November 13 2017, @09:46PM (#596487) Journal

          Donald Trump is not a hiring manager or marketing rep for Trump Mar A Lago Resort, he is the President of the United States, and has absolutely nothing to do with Trump Mar A Lago Resort's hiring or business practices and policies.

          Good. Then he can have a meeting (have his staff meet) with the ownership of Mar-A-Lago ownership and persuade them to change their policies, the same was he did with other U.S. businesses about to export jobs. That's fair, isn't it?

          He can choose to not go there until they change their practices and go to Camp David instead. That's fair, isn't it?

          He can Tweet about how unfair it is that Americans are being denied jobs at Mar-A-Lago because they import foreign workers. That's fair, isn't it?

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