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The Verge: Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin
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I wish the village president at least got a bribe out of it, but I bet the fucker did it for a photo OP with Trump and maybe a MAGA hat.
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you are living in a fantasy world buddyNo one in this picture should escape this embarrassment.
Now we'll see if the media and Dems do their jobs correctly. If Republicans can still trot out the Solyndra "scandal" for ammunition against green energy and Obama, then I think Dems can be smart enough to use this in many many ways.
I assume the Walker/Foxconn defense force's spin is: "Well now that a pro-tax anti-job Democrat got elected, it obviously makes no sense to try build that factory there! We're lucky they're even willing to bring 1500 jobs into this socialist hellscape," etc. (Because obviously a multinational corporation makes multi-billion dollar investments that can be totally upended every 2-4 years based on local election results.)
I still can't get over how badly Wisconsin botched this. Never trust Foxconn y'all.
Dear Municipalities of the United States
STOP CUTTING SWEETHEART DEALS WITH CORPORATE ENTITIES
Fucking tell them to go dodge taxes like everyone else
STOP CUTTING SWEETHEART DEALS WITH CORPORATE ENTITIES
Fucking tell them to go dodge taxes like everyone else
A pretty long article on how local homeowners have been affected by the Foxconn project, including those who fought/are fighting eminent domain threats.
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Damn the shitshow never stops, Wiscon is going to be paying for this for decades
It's very sad, I'll never understand why the local government put up with any of this, the benefits simply were never going to be there. And of course as this all falls apart all of the Walker appointees are leaving WEDC and kicking the can down the road
Either they get Foxconn without subsidies or Foxconn is wasting a shit ton of cash. I wonder how stupid thier investors are?
Oh that's embarrassing.
As a Wisconsin citizen, fuck Scott Walker with that shovel.
I appreciate Tony Evers is doing the best he can to avert catastrophe. But we'll see what happens...
I hope Wisconsin voters remember this but I fear we'll be seeing another "blue wall collapse" in 2020.
With Foxconn describing Evers as being not friendly to business, the GOP gets another gift.
Yup. People will slurp that up rather than all of the evidence that shows Foxconn was always full of shit.
Imagine thinking someone would build an electronics factory in 2019 and not have robots putting the stuff together. Hopefully the citizens of WI remember this come next November.
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I mean at this point it looks like not even the building is getting built let along bots installed
"We were told that this was a work, not actual, ya know, work."
It's amazing how brazen this is. The initial announcement was done only to fluff the resumes of Walker and Trump. Foxconn had no intention of bringing 13000 jobs, but as long as the state was under GOP control no one would press too hard. Now that the local government has changed, they are whining about the inconvenience of having to have tangible results. I hope the state and the IRS tell them to get fucked.
Meh, living in Wisconsin, I can say most people don't believe in the whole Foxconn thing. Everyone in the main cities (Milwaukee, Madison) know its crap, Racine and Kenosha counties know its crap. Its mainly the Waukesha county crowd (Republican central) and some republicans in the barely any civilization part of the state (literally anything north of Milwaukee or Madison) that believe Foxconn will do anything substantial.
I don't want to jynx anything, but I have a hard time believing that Wisconsin will vote red next year. It really does seem like if some moderate gets the nod next year (Joe Biden), that he will win the state. Wisconsin isn't as red as people believe it to be.
I don't want to jynx anything, but I have a hard time believing that Wisconsin will vote red next year. It really does seem like if some moderate gets the nod next year (Joe Biden), that he will win the state. Wisconsin isn't as red as people believe it to be.
But people actually thought they were gonna have 13,000 people making LCD's, especially on American wages? And Foxconn was gonna increase the number of their employees by over 8 times? The no factory thing seems like a better outcome for the state at this point re: subsidiaries.
Uh this is why big states should never give subsidies. Let them fight for you, you don't fight over them. We have the workers, cultural, educational and actual real infrastructure for this type of shit.
I'm glad Los Angeles of all places isn't giving them subsidies anymore. I seem to remember that Lucas museum going to Chicago or some shit but they ended up going to LA anyway. Lol
I'm glad Los Angeles of all places isn't giving them subsidies anymore. I seem to remember that Lucas museum going to Chicago or some shit but they ended up going to LA anyway. Lol
I'm glad The Verge has kept following this story.
I know the wider tech community was clowning on The Verge after that one dumb PC build video, but I do generally like their tech coverage. (Hoping Verge and Polygon don't end up getting deadspun.)
Glad that the wheels continue to come off of this scam faster with every coming day, though I can't say I'm looking forward to what the state's GOP will say and do once Evers and Kaul take the gloves off and take up legal action against Foxconn
I really hope you are right. My first thought was that people are going to buy the bullshit that this deal is falling apart because of a Dem governor.
Most people know they put out good stuff pretty consistently. The wider tech audience would probably not be happy.
I read this on Madison.com last Friday.
My question is - how is this not plain and simple violation of contract law?
You said you were going to do these things.
You didn't do them.
Therefore our contract is null and void.
Does anybody know the details?
My question is - how is this not plain and simple violation of contract law?
You said you were going to do these things.
You didn't do them.
Therefore our contract is null and void.
Does anybody know the details?
I won't be surprised if there was something added to the contract by Foxconn during the negotiations to be able to do this since this whole things sounds like it was done haphazardly and quickly to score publicity points by state and city officials.
It would be so funny if people weren't losing homes left and right unjustly.
I personally know someone who just got hired by Foxconn in WI. I am shocked by how they are going about hiring. The person I know had just one screening interview from the hiring manager and was offered a full time position. There was no on-site and no technical interview over the phone for an engineering position. Also this dude lied on his resume. The whole process seemed incredibly ineptly run. I am guessing they have been hiring people like this just to meet their quotas to qualify for subsidies. This whole scam is going to implode sooner or later.
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