Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
by XorNot on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:32PM
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Probably but I'm starting to think the corruption bar might be pathetically low for a lot of these people as well. As in, what they want most is to feel important - put them in a private jet, buy them fancy dinners and I suspect you don't actually have to pay out all that much cash.
Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
by jacobush on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @06:56PM
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Hunting trips and golf, is the impression I get is the lubricant of choice around here.
Re:Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:29PM
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This isn't the first time politically connected cronies sold a state on in-sourced manufacturing. Greentech [1] was going to make pitiful NEVs and sell them domestically plus export to China. No one seemed to balk at the stupid idea and funded a factory that produced nothing.
[1] https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/whatever-happened-to-terr...
Just a guess, sadly, they probably had the financial lubrication to fight for it. Not to mention that the "big numbers" play to their political audience, my Reagan Republican father, for one. Sure, someone who's a little more insightful about technology might be skeptical, but that wasn't Walker's audience.