Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
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Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#2> But in actual reality, the project has succeeded in manufacturing mostly this: an endless supply of wonderful things for the President to promise his supporters. This past weekend, in an interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, Trump insisted Foxconn had built “one of the most incredible plants I’ve ever seen” in Mount Pleasant and would keep its promises and more if he was reelected. “They will do what I tell them to do,” he said. “If we win the election, Foxconn is going to come into our country with money like no other company has come into our country.”
IMO a fascinatingly complex story about the kinds of plays which occur at this level, and how much money it takes to keep up an empty story going. The city and state legislature acted most shamefully in denying its citizens any insight or oversight into what was happening.
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#3FoxConn's Wisconsin factory will be built the moment asia foxconn's factories are banned.
No more no less.
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#4This "Reply All" podcast episode explains the history behind this pretty well: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#5As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#6> But in actual reality, the project has succeeded in manufacturing mostly this: an endless supply of wonderful things for the President to promise his supporters. This past weekend, in an interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, Trump insisted Foxconn had built “one of the most incredible plants I’ve ever seen” in Mount Pleasant and would keep its promises and more if he was reelected. “They will do what I tell…
I live in WI and I don’t think anyone is fooled at this point. If there is a minimum amount needed to keep a lie going until an election, they didn’t hit the target.
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#7As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?
That’s mentioned in the article — no. It was going to be cost and logisticly prohibitive to make LCDs.
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#8> But in actual reality, the project has succeeded in manufacturing mostly this: an endless supply of wonderful things for the President to promise his supporters. This past weekend, in an interview with a local Wisconsin TV station, Trump insisted Foxconn had built “one of the most incredible plants I’ve ever seen” in Mount Pleasant and would keep its promises and more if he was reelected. “They will do what I tell…
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Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#9This entire project was a shameful example of political pump-and-dump by our former governor.
He sold the more gullible elements of our state on this fairy tale about Foxconn, got lots of air time and Trump points out of it, made an abortive presidential run, and then got replaced and slunk into the shadows before the music stopped.
Now our new Governor is left cleaning up the embarrassing mess while simultaneously being blamed for its failure by the very people who made the whole thing happen.
Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
#10This entire project was a shameful example of political pump-and-dump by our former governor. He sold the more gullible elements of our state on this fairy tale about Foxconn, got lots of air time and Trump points out of it, made an abortive presidential run, and then got replaced and slunk into the shadows before the music stopped. Now our new Governor is left cleaning up the embarrassing mess while simultaneously b…
The WI legislature was also committed to stopping the governor from having any oversight.