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In 2017, then Governor Scott Walker and the GOP-monopoly Wisconsin Legislature rammed this "deal" down our throats. Here is where it stands today.
The deal that finished Wisconsin
Hopes were high among the employees who joined Foxconns Wisconsin project in the summer of 2018. In June, President Donald Trump had broken ground on an LCD factory he called the eighth wonder of the world. The scale of the promise was indeed enormous: a $10 billion investment from the Taiwanese electronics giant, a 20 million-square-foot manufacturing complex, and, most importantly, 13,000 jobs.
Which is why new recruits arriving at the 1960s office building Foxconn had purchased in downtown Milwaukee were surprised to discover they had to provide their own office supplies. One of the largest companies in the world, and you have to bring your own pencil, an employee recalls wondering. Maybe Foxconn was just moving too fast to be bothered with such details, they thought, as they brought their laptops from home and scavenged pencils left behind by the buildings previous tenants. They listened to the cries of co-workers trapped in the elevators that often broke, noted the water that occasionally leaked from the ceiling, and wondered when the building would be transformed into the gleaming North American headquarters an executive had promised.
The renovations never arrived. Neither did the factory, the tech campus, nor the thousands of jobs. Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted on almost every promise. The building Foxconn calls an LCD factory about 1/20th the size of the original plan is little more than an empty shell. In September, Foxconn received a permit to change its intended use from manufacturing to storage.
Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones
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mokawanis
(4,440 posts)and what he and the Republicans did to this state. I hate him almost as much as I hate Trump.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)back to the Repukes.
BComplex
(8,051 posts)It's always about the glorification of money with these republicans. That's why many of them quit being in love with trump when it was shown he was actually broke.
They fall in love with, and believe anything told to them, by people they THINK have lots of money. They're so fucking gullible about money.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)The entire thing was a scam to grift billions of tax dollars "tax credits" from Wisconsinites and funnel into the pockets of republicans and Chinese officials.
AllyCat
(16,187 posts)and they rammed it through anyway. Now homes have been bulldozed and eaten up by eminent domain for nothing. No jobs. No industry. No contribution to tech. No tax base for Wisconsin and our horribly underfunded schools and other infrastructure. Thanks a lot for nothing Republicons!