News of a scheduled White House visit by Foxconn is being dangled in front of media as a signal of something after weeks of confusion, mixed messages and strategic jitterbugging.
In the meanwhile, tut-tut, those of you in the no-need-to-know demographic: someone will get back to you about something, sometime later. Unless the crystal ball says 'ask again later.'
So while the power brokers meet behind closed doors without a publicly-released agenda, Wisconsin taxpayers' at the state and local levels whose money is being spent in torrents - - through commitments made by a failed job-creator and defeated former Governor - - are back in wait-and-see-mode.
Perhaps the people's newly-elected representatives like Governor Evers who isn't known to at the table because he's from a party with the irritating word Democratic in its name that is regularly denounced by the current White House occupant
Who openly dreams of serving more terms than allowed by law, as some of the dictators he admires have managed to arrange.
Today's White House set-up in the Foxconn saga is more than another reminder of how little input is exercised by or implemented from those most directly in the bulldozers' way or the tax-collectors' reach.
It's also an unwelcome echo of the old top-down Soviet 'development' model that treated people, villages and homes as units of production fed into the charts and fine print of five-year plans.
The distant and impenetrable leadership holding all the cards will again decide how the Village of Mount Pleasant will be used - - how its taxes are spent, who at ground level is moved out of their houses or off farmland labeled 'blighted' to give dictated expendability a temporary patina of legitimacy, when a factory will opened be opened, with how many workers and how many robots, and with whatdamage 'protections' will be added to the air and water for generations- - all in the name of progress defined by the managers and beneficiaries of the Corporate Welfare State.
Don't take my word for it. Even though it's behind a pay wall, the headline along on this piece from very establishment The Wall Street Journal tells the story:
Meanwhile, we await some news. Of something. From someone.
A full Foxonnn archive is here.
In the meanwhile, tut-tut, those of you in the no-need-to-know demographic: someone will get back to you about something, sometime later. Unless the crystal ball says 'ask again later.'
So while the power brokers meet behind closed doors without a publicly-released agenda, Wisconsin taxpayers' at the state and local levels whose money is being spent in torrents - - through commitments made by a failed job-creator and defeated former Governor - - are back in wait-and-see-mode.
Perhaps the people's newly-elected representatives like Governor Evers who isn't known to at the table because he's from a party with the irritating word Democratic in its name that is regularly denounced by the current White House occupant
Who openly dreams of serving more terms than allowed by law, as some of the dictators he admires have managed to arrange.
Today's White House set-up in the Foxconn saga is more than another reminder of how little input is exercised by or implemented from those most directly in the bulldozers' way or the tax-collectors' reach.
It's also an unwelcome echo of the old top-down Soviet 'development' model that treated people, villages and homes as units of production fed into the charts and fine print of five-year plans.
The distant and impenetrable leadership holding all the cards will again decide how the Village of Mount Pleasant will be used - - how its taxes are spent, who at ground level is moved out of their houses or off farmland labeled 'blighted' to give dictated expendability a temporary patina of legitimacy, when a factory will opened be opened, with how many workers and how many robots, and with what
Don't take my word for it. Even though it's behind a pay wall, the headline along on this piece from very establishment The Wall Street Journal tells the story:
Foxconn tore up a small town to build a big factory - - the retreatedFurther facilitated by loyal underlings and self-perpetuating clerks, like Robin Vos and his expanded squad of functionaries - - all more interested in clutching their crumbs of authority with a death grip and winning donor approval and promised promotions than embracing the truth and the democratic transparency that is needed to make it work.
Meanwhile, we await some news. Of something. From someone.
A full Foxonnn archive is here.