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Foxconn Update
« on: October 19, 2020, 05:50:05 PM »
Sorry if this is a repeat thread, but quite the article chronicling the Foxconn project up to date.

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trump

Feel pretty awful for those who were pushed to move from their homes for big empty unused buildings. Hopefully they find a purpose for them.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2020, 06:05:19 PM »
Not just the homeowners, but the WI taxpayers, who were fleeced out of over $4 Billion for unenforceable promises and a couple of photo ops....

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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2020, 06:46:07 PM »
Fleece City.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2020, 07:46:17 AM »
Quote from: GooooMarquette on October 19, 2020, 06:05:19 PM
Not just the homeowners, but the WI taxpayers, who were fleeced out of over $4 Billion for unenforceable promises and a couple of photo ops....



Very little of the $4b will ever be paid as Foxconn is not meeting the requirements.

It's a fleecing all right .. just not in the billions.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2020, 08:04:21 AM »
Obviously some of the infrastructure upgrades were a necessity.  But most were not.  And of course a bunch of people were displaced from their homes when they didn't need to be.

This was a bad deal from the beginning.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2020, 08:04:51 AM »
Fox con.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2020, 08:13:12 AM »
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2020, 08:33:40 AM »
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2020, 08:34:53 AM »
Quote from: MUfan12 on October 20, 2020, 08:33:40 AM


When everyone was tripping over themselves to be involved.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2020, 09:07:29 AM »
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on October 20, 2020, 08:34:53 AM
When everyone was tripping over themselves to be involved.

I mean, I heard not so limited or quiet clamoring for them to be the name sponsor of the new arena.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2020, 09:17:48 AM »
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on October 20, 2020, 08:34:53 AM
When everyone was tripping over themselves to be involved.

I wonder where the replica jersey is.
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« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2020, 10:01:52 AM »
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2020, 11:33:42 AM »
Stunned this didn't turn out as advertised. Thanks, Obama.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2020, 11:39:43 AM »
Quote from: Golden Avalanche on October 20, 2020, 11:33:42 AM
Stunned this didn't turn out as advertised. Thanks, Obama.

It is Obama and Evers fault... unless it went well then its Walker and Trumps achievement
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2020, 09:27:04 PM »
Quote from: Fluffy Blue Monster on October 20, 2020, 08:34:53 AM
When everyone was tripping over themselves to be involved.

Can’t believe we got involved with those Marxists.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #15 on: October 21, 2020, 04:04:55 PM »
This stuff is pretty amazing:

..the contract former Gov. Scott Walker created with Foxconn included a huge loophole. The company could hire hundreds of employees on a short-term basis, get the state tax credits for capital expenditures and then lay off the workers.

.. that’s exactly what Foxconn did, hiring hundreds toward the end of 2019, claiming them on its report to the state for the 2019 year, and then quickly laying the employees off early in 2020.

... none of the employees were hired to work on any actual project, because Foxconn has yet to figure out what it can manufacture successfully in Wisconsin. The company has considered the following businesses: fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats, cosmetics, designer handbags, gaming teams, dairy exports, and a project involving “camera-festooned autonomous vehicles.”

What a complete cluserf.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2020, 04:07:22 PM »
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 21, 2020, 04:04:55 PM
This stuff is pretty amazing:

..the contract former Gov. Scott Walker created with Foxconn included a huge loophole. The company could hire hundreds of employees on a short-term basis, get the state tax credits for capital expenditures and then lay off the workers.

.. that’s exactly what Foxconn did, hiring hundreds toward the end of 2019, claiming them on its report to the state for the 2019 year, and then quickly laying the employees off early in 2020.

... none of the employees were hired to work on any actual project, because Foxconn has yet to figure out what it can manufacture successfully in Wisconsin. The company has considered the following businesses: fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats, cosmetics, designer handbags, gaming teams, dairy exports, and a project involving “camera-festooned autonomous vehicles.”

What a complete cluserf.

you do know The Onion is sarcasm, right? No way that's real.
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #17 on: October 21, 2020, 04:09:01 PM »
Wait--what??  How can camera-festooned autonomous vehicles be classified as a clusterfk?
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #18 on: October 21, 2020, 04:49:08 PM »
Seems like there'd be lots of prestigious, high-paying jobs in boat storage and fish farming....
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2020, 05:27:52 PM »
Quote from: GooooMarquette on October 21, 2020, 04:49:08 PM
Seems like there'd be lots of prestigious, high-paying jobs in boat storage and fish farming....

Now we know what Walker is doing after being run: exporting ice cream!

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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2020, 05:39:45 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: October 21, 2020, 05:43:17 PM »
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #22 on: October 21, 2020, 06:52:58 PM »
Quote from: mu_hilltopper on October 21, 2020, 04:04:55 PM
This stuff is pretty amazing:

..the contract former Gov. Scott Walker created with Foxconn included a huge loophole. The company could hire hundreds of employees on a short-term basis, get the state tax credits for capital expenditures and then lay off the workers.

.. that’s exactly what Foxconn did, hiring hundreds toward the end of 2019, claiming them on its report to the state for the 2019 year, and then quickly laying the employees off early in 2020.

... none of the employees were hired to work on any actual project, because Foxconn has yet to figure out what it can manufacture successfully in Wisconsin. The company has considered the following businesses: fish farms, exporting ice cream, storing boats, cosmetics, designer handbags, gaming teams, dairy exports, and a project involving “camera-festooned autonomous vehicles.”

What a complete cluserf.

Can't spell Foxconn without the C-O-N.

https://www.jsonline.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fmilwaukee%2F2020%2F10%2F19%2Ffoxconn-construction-continues-but-company-silent-hiring%2F3579888001%2F

You know, if only we had a "businessman president," this probably would have never happened!
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #23 on: October 21, 2020, 06:54:54 PM »
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Re: Foxconn Update
« Reply #24 on: October 21, 2020, 07:06:20 PM »
Quote from: tower912 on October 21, 2020, 06:54:54 PM
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-foxconn-facility/

"You know, I just realized the other day, they told me — when we won the state of Wisconsin, it hadn’t been won by a Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.  Did you know that?  And I won Wisconsin. And I like Wisconsin a lot, but we won Wisconsin. (Applause.) And Ronald Reagan — remember, Wisconsin was the state that Ronald Reagan did not win. And that was in 1952. ... So I had this incredible company going to invest someplace in the world — not here necessarily. And I will tell you they wouldn’t have done it here, except that I became President, so that’s good. But they wanted to do it someplace now in the United States. And I immediately thought of the state of Wisconsin.”

Those were lovely sentiments. Except for the made-up crud ... and it being a scam the entire time that was lovely.
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