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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:49PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:49PM (#596489)

    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)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday November 13 2017, @10:15PM (#596513)

    > 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

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:50PM (#596805)

      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.