Trump sure liked those illegal alien Polish workers who did the demolition work for $5/hour with no benefits for his Trump Tower in New York; including asbestos removal without being provided protective equipment.
That’s cornpone stuff, shf.
Never any proof, even in court (when Trump testified in 1990) that Trump knowingly employed illegals.
Not one shred of evidence that Trump knew. Just an informant with a hearsay report.
I do understand that as a Cruz fan, you’d declare that good enough and run with it. Simply isn’t proven.
I’ve run a union business for over 30 years in Chicago, and I have many friends who do the same in New York and New Jersey (I am a pipefitter, fire sprinklers, water mains, and gas lines).
I will tell you how this works, I do NOT hire people, I get them from the union hall. I have no say so in this (well very little), I can only go the union steward (union rep), and file a grievance.
Further, who the union provides is none of my business (or so I am told over and over). Sometimes I get chronies from one alderman or a friend of a friend who couldn’t find the sharp side of a shovel, and I have to deal with them until the grievance is worked out.
As far as $5 an hour laborers, I have no idea what my union pays laborers, and sometimes they send some pretty dicey people, especially on big jobs where there aren’t enough regular union members.
As union members, I do NOT supply their tools, protective equipment or the like, they are responsible for those things.
Strikes are a prime example of how this works, say IBEW is on strike somewhere, or even the Teamsters, the unions here will hire about 100 people at $5 an hour (cash) to go picket.
There is little I can do about it, and of course I want to.
As far as Trump giving money to dems over the years, all I can do is laugh. Year after year I have to give to every mayor for the 50 towns around me, and every election cycle I have to pony up at least a grand for anyone who may have a chance to beat him. Without doing so, I can get jerked around by inspectors, on permits, and on final job inspections
I also have to pay to each and every damned towns pet charity (which is almost always United Way), but it also includes Rainbow, Operation Push, The Daley Initiative, Rahm’s Chicago, the list goes on and on. This is the cost of doing business where I live.
Also, I am a registered dem, because how I register is public knowledge, and I do get reminders that how I register is of public record. Welcome to Chicago, and I am sure New York is the same. I need to work, get jobs, and feed my family.
I haven’t voted since Reagan, and I can tell you now I didn’t vote for him because he was a bible thumper, he was the anti-Carter bible thumper. This country needs a leader, not a bible thumper. We got a born-again now in the white house, and I have no desire to stick another one in. America is in bad shape, and I WILL vote Trump(and almost every other pipefitter and construction guy (union members) will as well, or we will most likely stay home.
If Cruz is the nominee.. forget it. One thing we hate is some slickster in a suit coming around us asking “have you heard the word brother?” You can keep your Hucklebees, your Jimmy Swaggarts and your Jim and Tammy Bakers.
BTW, I signed up today after watching this forum for a couple of months. I would have signed up sooner, but it seems that if you haven’t been here since 1992 your a noob and your opinion doesn’t matter (or you are flamed to death). But hell, I said screw it and signed up.
If Trump doesn’t get the nomination, I’ll just stay home again, I won’t vote for a Clinton or a socialist.