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Foxconn may drop plans to build flat screens in Wisconsin
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn may drop plans to build flat screen panels at a Wisconsin plant for which it was promised $4 billion in state and local tax dollars. But the company says it is going ahead with developing the Wisconsin property and still expects to hire up to 13,000 workers.
The plant and its expensive incentive package has been controversial from the time it was announced in 2017. It was negotiated during the tenure of former Republican Governor Scott Walker, who lost his re-election bid last year. The incentive package was one of the issues in the campaign.
[...] A top executive at Foxconn told Reuters that the company determined a US plant "can't compete" with lower-cost flat panel plants elsewhere in the world.
(Score: 0, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:01AM (8 children)
I heard this story too. And thought, this sounds very phoney. So I called Terry of Foxconn. Called him on the Facetime. If you didn't know. Terry is the big boss at Foxconn. What he says, goes. And he says the Factory for Wisconsin is GO GO GO!! 13,000 Jobs coming. For Robots and for people. They're not coming right away. I know so many of you want them to come quickly. So do I. So do I. It's not quick. But they're coming, and when they come it's going to be incredible. You're welcome. Now go thank Terry and thank Former Governor Walker!!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:42AM (7 children)
http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/foxconn-says-wisconsin-factory-plans-are-back-on-after-talk-with-trump/ [techcrunch.com]
It's also in the Soylentnews submission queue, and ought to have been merged with this story at least, or just kill it.
Trump does seem to have that magic wand that Obama said would be required. The US got another 304,000 jobs in January, beating the 170,000 that had been expected. Trump is on a roll. Maybe those Buzzfeed writers can move to Wisconsin and work at Foxconn.
(Score: 0, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 02 2019, @09:55AM
Thank you, Anonymous. Tremendous Jobs Numbers for January. Even though we had to do the Shut down. And I sent a Sub -- Rejected. To make room for this fabricated negative coverage! foxbusiness.com/markets/stock-futures-little-changed-ahead-of-jobs-report [foxbusiness.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @12:46PM
Mostly research jobs, Buzzfeed writers already failed there. Many say they should learn to code but logic is provably elusive to these individuals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @04:05PM
If waving that magic wand involved handing billions of taxpayer money to a company, he should just put it back in his pants.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Captival on Saturday February 02 2019, @05:53PM (1 child)
How does an actual real informative link with updated news that makes this two day old Slashdot repost redundant get moderated to -1 while the endless trolling of that permanent fake Trump get postitive?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @07:32PM
SPFT (Sock Puppets For Trump). That's how the fake Trump gets modded up all the time. Wonder what the fake Trump and all his minions want to effect here. Trolling is just trolling in the long run.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @12:41AM
Boing-boing? Cory Doctorow? Rubes vs. Slickers [boingboing.net]
Magic wand? That looks like a Mario Bros mushroom?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday February 03 2019, @06:57PM
TL;DR - your economy is actually doing terribly, you just don't realise it yet.
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