Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?
Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
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#12This 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…
What does Foxconn get out of it? From the article they seem to have lost lots of money.
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#13Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?
Faux con?
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#14> 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.
I'd love to agree with you but the Wisconsin election results are going to prove otherwise.
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#16Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?
Corporate Welfare Queens of Wisconsin
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#18Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?
Foxconned, duh.
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#19This is a great article around why "corporate welfare" rarely works out. Also, semes like a textbook example of "eminent domain" abuse?
We call this "expropriation" in Canada and it is rarely abused like this.
Taking peoples property to give it to a private corporation? I can understand the need to take property for public use (roads, infra) but the US needs to end eminent domain abuse. If Foxconn needed the property, go to the landowners and buy it, dont go to the gvt and claim 'road widening' to kick them off.
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