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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

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

quasse wrote: post #9

This 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…

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.

Get ready for this same thing to happen on a national scale if Biden wins on November 3!

Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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Post by willis936 »

paxys wrote: post #14
willis936 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t think this is a very important issue to most people. It gets harder to deny truths that are physically close and more tightly tied into personal networks. I don’t think enough people are affected by this scandal to have many change their vote because of it.

Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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Post by wishconsinconn »

sjg007 wrote: post #11

Man I can’t wait for the Netflix movie about this. What should the title be?

"Fox in the cheesehouse"?

While you wait, American Factory is a pretty good documentary about a Chinese auto glass manufacturer trying to set up a stateside plant in an area that aggressively courted them.

Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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Post by Lazare »

jimsparkman wrote: post #5

As an aside, does Wisconsin even make sense from a logistical standpoint for LCDs?

Put it this way: It's possible that you could manufacture LCDs profitably in Wisconsin...

...but nobody has ever proposed an even vaguely plausible plan to do so. Foxconn seems to have to viewed it as so obviously absurd they never even tried to develop a plan, much less started building a factory.

Whatever else you may say about Foxconn, they seem to be pretty decent at manufacturing things cheaply. If they considered the idea to be a joke, it's probably safe to assume it's utterly impractical.

Re: Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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Post by jcranmer »

ars wrote: post #12
quasse wrote: post #9

This 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.

If I had to guess, I would say that they thought that they'd still get the money anyways for a greatly stepped-down facility. The fact that Wisconsin is cancelling the money for Foxconn not delivering on their promises (which they probably never intended to keep in the first place) seems to have come as a surprise to Foxconn.
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