You know the TV screen factory for which Foxconn said thousands of acres and scores of homes and farms had to be bulldozed in Mount Pleasant?
Forget it: "We're not building a factory in Wisconsin," Foxconn told Reuters.
And all those thousands of assembly jobs for blue-collar workers, including people leaving prisons looking for good, entry-level wages?
Forget that, too.
Foxconn now tells Reuters things have changed:
Remember that Foxconn has done this before.
Remember that the GOP's lame-duck power grab retained a partisan, legislative glory hold on the WEDC - - lead Wisconsin agency overseeing the billions in taxpayer aid to be shoveled to the company - - to prevent incoming Gov. Tony Evers from tampering with the deal and especially Walker's legacy, as he tweeted:
Well, Donald Trump, Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald, and the political ghost of Scott Walker who promised eleventy-thousand times that 13,000 jobs were coming - - it's all yours now.
Politically.
But financially - - look at all the state, Mount Pleasant and Racine County money and land and homeowners rights' and worker dreams that have been thrown away.
And hundreds of millions of precious transportation dollars dumped into new lanes and interchanges to nowhere except more sprawl and subsidy to developers.
For what?
To re-elect a governor whose signature achievement had been and remains a two-term failure to create promised jobs.
Hang your heads, all.
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| Mt. Pleasant cabbage fields on Foxconn site, 2017 |
And all those thousands of assembly jobs for blue-collar workers, including people leaving prisons looking for good, entry-level wages?
Forget that, too.
Foxconn now tells Reuters things have changed:
Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn Chief Executive Terry Gou, told Reuters...[Foxconn] was still evaluating options for Wisconsin, but cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States, where labor expenses are comparatively high.
“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.,” he said in an interview. “We can’t compete.
Initially - - Foxconn had said the hiring would be so concentrated on assembly and packaging that only 763 would be engineers.Remember that Foxconn has done this before.
WI Foxconn plant, election-talk? Remember it stiffed Penn.
So while the nicely-timed-for-Walker's-re-election giddiness over some job growth here finally after six failed years in office, as well as a race between neighboring states to throw corporate welfare/public inducements Foxconn's way are on - - remember that Pennsylvania put big money on the table for a Foxconn plant that never happened there.
Details.
How Foxconn’s broken pledges in Pennsylvania cast doubt on Trump’s jobs planSee the Foxconn archive I have been posting since Day One for more than 275 items tracing this project's disgusting history for more details.
Remember that the GOP's lame-duck power grab retained a partisan, legislative glory hold on the WEDC - - lead Wisconsin agency overseeing the billions in taxpayer aid to be shoveled to the company - - to prevent incoming Gov. Tony Evers from tampering with the deal and especially Walker's legacy, as he tweeted:
Dec 8
OUR LEGACY - We began work on the largest economic development project in state history - Foxconn’s $10 billion investment that will employee [Sic] 13,000 people - and one of the largest in America.
Politically.
But financially - - look at all the state, Mount Pleasant and Racine County money and land and homeowners rights' and worker dreams that have been thrown away.
And hundreds of millions of precious transportation dollars dumped into new lanes and interchanges to nowhere except more sprawl and subsidy to developers.
For what?
To re-elect a governor whose signature achievement had been and remains a two-term failure to create promised jobs.
Hang your heads, all.