I Think It’s Time For A Foxconn Economic Impact Study

So we all know that Scott Walker and Donald Trump gave away the farm…or several farms if you look at the impact of eminent domain in Racine County…but Foxconn never kept their part of the bargain. And the facility in Mount Pleasant WI is a fraction of the promised investments…

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So Now We Have The CHIPS bill…Can We Manufacture The Dang Things In That Money Pit In Mount Pleasant.

So the feds have passed a bill to encourage and subsidize the manufacture of computer chips in the United States. And the president has signed it. Besides increasing manufacturing opportunities in this country, the secondary goal is to solve some of the supply chain issues that are vexing any number…

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What? We Didn’t Try To Move Boeing To The Foxconn Campus?

Well, another strange turn of events in corporate America: Boeing’s Thursday announcement that it would be moving its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va. Boeing earlier announced that it would be moving its headquarters to Arlington and establishing a research and technology hub in Northern Virginia. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun…

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Gov. Tony Evers fixes the Republican Foxconn boondoggle

Leave it to Democrats like Gov. Tony Evers to fix the messes left behind by Republicans like former Gov. Scott Walker… A new agreement between Foxconn Technology Group and the state announced Tuesday dramatically scales back the number of jobs the company promises to create — to only 1,454 — and reduces the…

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Let’s Kill Two Birds With One Stone: Strauss Meats and Foxconn

After having been scared out of Milwaukee and blocked from expansion in Franklin, let’s have Strauss Meats expand into the mostly empty Foxconn plant in Racine County!

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Sunday Afternoon Musing: Continuing On That Foxconn Theme:

Sometimes this stuff gets a little confusing and convoluted…but the elected officials in Wisconsin do know who they are dealing with? right? I mean Foxconn is a well know Taiwanese electronics manufacturer right? Then why did someone say something, well, like this? At some point, special rocks were flown in…

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Remember That Eighth Wonder Of The World Promise @Foxconn From Pres. Trump?

I am not going to go into all of the fabrications, changes, blown expectations, over promises, cheated municipalities, and disappointed public officials…and of course those hoping for high tech job from an international leader. But I am going to bring your attention to a quote from President Donald Trump at…

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Poor Ideas In Public Safety: Foxconn Edition

Yes, Foxconn is actually building some type of manufacturing facility in Racine County in Wisconsin. But they don’t seem to fully appreciate the building safety laws that we’ve all come to expect. What do I mean? Sprinkler systems in buildings. Something that we all take for granted in modern buildings….

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What Foxconn was doing today:

just happened to stumble across this. This was at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. But I should have known since they had an ad in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel listing their career days at college campuses.

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Trump Hereby Orders Foxconn To Make iPhones in WI!

Most of you have probably seen President Trumps tweet ordering American companies to move production out of China. He can’t actually do that but he can increase tariffs and change trade policies to the point to cause that to happen eventually. But in case you missed them: In a Washington…

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