Trump won't give up.

[auld argonian]

I hear news stories today that that wienie Trump is back at it trying to build his trophy golf course right through Farmer Forbes' property again.

He says that he's doing it because his mommy was Scottish.

Hang it up, Trump. Go home and build your course in your back yard.

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[McClef]

He was on the BBC news claiming it would help conservation!

[Spc. Scott]

I would love to know how it would help conservation. I need a good laugh today.

It's beyond beautiful outside and I'm at work.

[auld argonian]

It's going to conserve his reputation that what he wants, he gets.

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[bjproc]

will it not bring jobs to the area?

[BEEDEE]

I saw him on BBC America last night. He maintains that the golf course will 'stabilize' the sand dunes. More likely will destroy the local ecosystem there.

I live in coastal North Carolina and hate what the developers are doing to the wetlands here. All they want is to make money and get out and leave the consequences to others.

Trump seems to have the same idea for Scotland.

Brian

[auld argonian]

will it not bring jobs to the area?

Well, not to start an economics class, but...

...think about similar situations elsewhere. Maybe the locals do get some of the work but the word gets out that there are jobs and people start heading to a destination to get the work. Maybe the recent arrivals are willing to take less money that the locals for the same work. If it's seasonal work then it all goes up for grabs: a wave of migrant workers showing up at the season's beginning and taking off when it ends. The community has to adapt to accomodate this influx of workers. More congestion, more community services needed (schools, medical, police, fire)...housing prices go up (supply and demand, baby!). What happens to the locals then? It's a shell game for developers to hand out that old "making work for the community" malarkey.

We have communities around Chicago where none of the locals want to work at the service businesses. You can't even get the high school kids to take summer jobs because they don't pay enough and the staff of the local McDonalds is made up of people who, no foolin', do a thirty or forty mile commute every day to work at McDonalds.

Do you honestly want to trust Donald Trump to be a good citizen?

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[bjproc]

delete please, double post

[bjproc]

Well, not to start an economics class, but...

...think about similar situations elsewhere. Maybe the locals do get some of the work but the word gets out that there are jobs and people start heading to a destination to get the work. Maybe the recent arrivals are willing to take less money that the locals for the same work. If it's seasonal work then it all goes up for grabs: a wave of migrant workers showing up at the season's beginning and taking off when it ends. The community has to adapt to accomodate this influx of workers. More congestion, more community services needed (schools, medical, police, fire)...housing prices go up (supply and demand, baby!). What happens to the locals then? It's a shell game for developers to hand out that old "making work for the community" malarkey.

We have communities around Chicago where none of the locals want to work at the service businesses. You can't even get the high school kids to take summer jobs because they don't pay enough and the staff of the local McDonalds is made up of people who, no foolin', do a thirty or forty mile commute every day to work at McDonalds.

Do you honestly want to trust Donald Trump to be a good citizen?

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well, when you put it like that, you may well be right

thanks for the good reply.

[Finn]

My repressed radical socialist is creeping out...