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| Foxconn's long con | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 29 2017, 12:03 PM (240 Views) | |
| Mr. Tik | Jul 29 2017, 12:03 PM Post #1 |
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Foxconn CEO Terry Gou and President Trump recently announced a plan to bring 3,000 jobs to Wisconsin at what appears to be a flat screen manufacturing plant. The political press ate it up, alternatively excoriating the program for costing too much in tax breaks and crowing a win for Wisconsin's conservative governor, Scott Walker . I wouldn't encourage either party to hold their breath. Gou is in the habit of promising big and rarely delivering. Four years ago business journals crowed about a plan to bring a Foxconn flat screen manufacturing plant to Pennsylvania in 2013. The result? Foxconn opened an empty office in Harrisburg and nothing further has been done. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/foxconn-apos-long-con-115206467.html |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| nNeo | Jul 29 2017, 12:38 PM Post #2 |
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Yeah. It's more of a wish-list than a plan. Also: "This amounts to a taxpayer cost of $230,000 per worker - if Foxconn keeps hiring." -- Corporate welfare alert. Edited by nNeo, Jul 29 2017, 12:40 PM.
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| estonianman | Jul 29 2017, 01:41 PM Post #3 |
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Yeah. So basically allowing them to keep more of their own money. But social contracteers Tik and the new guy to the club Neo - consider everything you produce as belonging to the community, and they just allow you to keep some for yourself. That's the xxxxing con. |
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| Mr. Tik | Jul 29 2017, 05:26 PM Post #4 |
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This 1 number sums up why that Foxconn deal is over-the-top bad for Wisconsin http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-1-number-sums-up-why-that-foxconn-deal-is-over-the-top-bad-for-wisconsin-2017-07-28?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo |
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You may be a conservative republican..if you are pro life until you get your mistress knocked up | |
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| clone | Jul 29 2017, 07:39 PM Post #5 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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Yabbut if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.....
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Opinionated | Jul 29 2017, 08:52 PM Post #6 |
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If and when those jobs actually show up in Wisconsin, I'll give Trump full credit. I, for one, am not holding my breath. Foxconn promised to build a factory in Pennsylvania back in 2013: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-foxconns-broken-pledges-in-pennsylvania-cast-doubt-on-trumps-jobs-plan/2017/03/03/0189f3de-ee3a-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.3e32285d48b0 And they're still waiting. |
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| clone | Jul 30 2017, 12:57 PM Post #7 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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Hold your breath....please....
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| ringotuna | Jul 31 2017, 03:30 AM Post #8 |
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The left doesn't like it when industry lures their voters off the government sugar-tit with jobs.
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| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| Opinionated | Jul 31 2017, 08:15 AM Post #9 |
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The right thinks that promises of jobs equates to the providing of jobs. |
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| estonianman | Jul 31 2017, 09:57 AM Post #10 |
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When a private business says they are going to make an investment - I listen. When a bureaucrat who has never worked a second outside government says they are going to create some jobs - I laugh out loud. |
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| coverpoint | Jul 31 2017, 11:20 AM Post #11 |
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When a private business creates a real demand for goods or services and uses their profits to expand and create jobs, I listen. When a private business requires corporate welfare from the government to expand their business, I laugh out loud. |
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| clone | Jul 31 2017, 11:37 AM Post #12 |
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Director @ Center for Advanced Memetic Warfare
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And then your attendant discreetly shuttles you back into your room. |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| ringotuna | Jul 31 2017, 11:58 AM Post #13 |
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No they don't. |
| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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| Opinionated | Jul 31 2017, 02:05 PM Post #14 |
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That's exactly what cons are doing, patting themselves and Trump on the back for creating jobs that don't yet exist. And may never exist. |
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| ringotuna | Jul 31 2017, 02:33 PM Post #15 |
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so negative. :oyvey |
| Ringoism: Never underestimate the advantages of being underestimated. | |
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