'Tricked by the devil.' They backed Trump. Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them.

[DonViejo]

BY TOM EBLEN

[e-mail]

May 10, 2018 11:34 AM

Updated May 10, 2018 05:02 PM

Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business. Now, he says, the Trump administration’s restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.

“I feel like I’ve been tricked by the devil,” said Devine, owner of Harrodsburg-based Devine Creations Landscaping. “I feel so stupid.”

Devine says it has been years since he could find enough dependable, drug-free American workers for his $12-an-hour jobs mowing and tending landscapes for cemeteries, shopping centers and apartment complexes across Central Kentucky.

So for years he has hired 20 seasonal workers, mostly from Guatemala, through the U.S. Labor Department’s H2-B “guest worker” program. Importing these workers for a few months cost him an additional $18,000 in fees and expenses beyond their wages, which must be the same as he pays American workers. But that’s the only way he could serve his customers.

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[RKP5637]

1. He's been tricked by himself for not paying attention to WTF he's voting for. He brought it all on

himself.

[Aristus]

2. "I feel so stupid".

That's because you are stupid, you hamhock. You'll get no sympathy from me...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. You know who doesn't have any problem getting guest workers?

Mar-A-Lago.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. "I feel so stupid."

And well you should... You were warned at least a year before the election. You ARE stupid.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Beat me to it. ;) nt

[dlk]

5. Cultivated Ignorance Has its Price

[eShirl]

6. We can all learn from our mistakes

if we let ourselves.

[workinclasszero]

7. SUCKERS!!!

Tired of winning yet idiots?

I love these kind of stories, I must admit!

Here's a violin concerto for all the MAGA tears.

[MaryMagdaline]

8. Enjoy your tax cut

Gotta make it to take it

[SWBTATTReg]

9. and this is the tip of the iceberg...

Who is going to pick our apples oranges and other fruits? Who's going to butcher our cattle and pigs, etc.? Who's going to provide the maid service at home for my elderly mom and dad? Who's going to put a new roof on my house? And the list of services that we rely on these workers to provide us on every facet of American life is constantly expanding as the American economy continues to expand.

Although under RUMP, I've yet to make a determination that the economy will continue to expand, RUMP has done too many anti-business initiatives (stops mergers because RUMP didn't like them, no more cheap or minimum wage employees to do those jobs that a lot of Americans won't do, mocked a lot of our trading partners and trade practices, caused a drop in the value of the dollar, caused our interest rates to start increasing (or at least, accelerate the rate of increase in rates), has started a whole cascade of lawsuits fighting the federal government on many fronts in response to these arbitrary and contrary decisions, etc., etc., etc.)...in short, a mess.

My gut feeling is that the headwinds are very definitely against us/the American economy mainly and solely because RUMP is not making intelligent decisions based on fact, but instead, personal grudges and the like.

[HAB911]

10. Tough shit, Bozo

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. You know, the responses I'm seeing here

are totally appropriate. I mean, who would've thought that the mentally deranged man-baby would fuck things up for everyone, not just us "darkies".

[Vinnie From Indy]

12. Large landscape company went out of business this year after 40 years in business

They could not get workers.

[Takket]

13. Again I would just like to point out...

That the next article featuring a Hillary voter toking about.... ANYTHING... will be the first. We don’t exist in the eyes of the media. Only drumpf voters matter and count.

[thucythucy]

15. Indeed. I keep trying to imagine what the press coverage would be

if Hilary had lost the popular vote by three million, but was appointed president by the Electoral College after proven interference by a foreign power.

Somehow I don't think the focus would be on whether or not Hilary voters were happy or unhappy.

[Itchinjim]

14. A right stupid fucker does what?

Stupid fuckers doing what stupid fuckers do.
Stupid fucker.

[IluvPitties]

16. You don't feel stupid, dude. You actually are.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Yep!

What did these idiots expect? I have no pity for them.

[thucythucy]

17. "Tricked by the devil"?

You'd think the Trump family owning a building with the street address "666" would have garnered some born-again comment.

But I guess that kind of demonizing only applies to Democrats.

[Runningdawg]

18. Elections have consequences.

When he spewed that MAGA bullshit - you didn't actually believe he was going to make YOUR America great again did you?

[dalton99a]

20. Fuck them

[peggysue2]

21. This is the only way it's going to sink in

Economic pain for the MAGA crowd. This man, Eddie Devine, wasn't tricked by the devil. He was tricked by his own delusion that the Trumpster was anything more than a conman, a perpetual grifter who has left damage on everything he touches. And now it's touched Mr. Devine. As it's touching those crabbers in Maryland I talked about in an earlier thread. The very people who voted for this clown are the most vulnerable. And the Trumpster? He doesn't care. He's convinced himself that people like Devine and the farmers who will be crushed by stupid trade policy will . . . suck it up.

Eddie Devine won't be alone in his disillusion and economic insecurity. The scales are beginning to fall from many people's eyes. Add the ongoing evidence of gross malfeasance and fraud to the economic pain the Trumpsters are delivering and this disbelief will turn to anger, even rage.

Trump and his enablers will be lucky to get out of DC without a tar and feathering. They deserve that and more.

[mcar]

23. Dotard told them what he would do

Get rid of all the immigrants. They cheered, the racist gits.

Now it's hurting them and "the devil" made them do it?

No sympathy, no empathy.