One Year After Trump's FOXCONN Groundbreaking: There's Almost Nothing to Show for It.

[DonViejo]

ONE YEAR AFTER TRUMP’S FOXCONN GROUNDBREAKING, THERE IS ALMOST NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT

Trump called it the ‘eighth wonder of the world’ — then the factory began to shrink

By Josh Dzieza@joshdzieza Jun 28, 2019, 9:02am EDT

It’s been exactly one year since President Trump pushed a golden shovel into a field in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, breaking ground on a planned Foxconn factory he called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

“This is one of the great deals, ever,” he said at the ceremony. The proposed facility would employ more than 13,000 Wisconsin workers and manufacture high-resolution LCD screens. And it would be huge, he said. “Think of it: more than 20 million feet, and that’s probably going to be a minimal number,” he claimed. The factory, Trump said, was evidence he was bringing manufacturing back to the United States, “restoring America’s industrial might.”

But Foxconn’s plans were already shrinking. When then-Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker wooed the company to the state with a subsidy package that came to total $4.5 billion, Foxconn had agreed to build a “Generation 10.5” facility that manufactured 75-inch LCD screens. But days before Trump’s groundbreaking, the company acknowledged it would build a much smaller “Gen6” LCD factory, a type that makes smaller screens and requires far fewer workers.

It would be the first of many changes. The last year has seen the factory shrink, get canceled, reappear, and undergo other shifts chronicled below. Even now, as concrete is finally being poured, it’s unclear what exactly Foxconn is building in Mount Pleasant. Industry experts shown Foxconn’s building plans say it does not appear to even be the scaled-down Gen6 LCD factory. If the last year is any guide, the whipsawing is far from over.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/28/18760240/foxconn-donald-trump-results-wisconsin-factory-progress-results

[lapfog_1]

1. some say the easiest person to con is a conman

Trump conned by Foxconn... I mean it's right there in their NAME.

[dalton99a]

2. "The eighth wonder of the world" is just another CON job

by the con man

[Demonaut]

3. housing facility for dissidents?

[JDC]

4. More grift. Walker and Ryan? Also nowhere to be seen.

The good people of Wisconsin bought and paid for this PR op.

[Javaman]

5. I've been following this "potemkin" factory since this whole thing started...

nothing is going to happen there.

after everything I have read, foxxconn (heavy on the con part) is putting up a show of "we're going to build something here", but in the end, nothing will.

they will promptly sell the land once the orange asshole is out of office.

some people made some money, a lot of people got totally fucked.

and when it's all said and done, Mount Pleasant (the mayor is a colossal fuckwit supporter of trumpy the shit clown), will be left with a huge urban blight in the form of a useless warehouse.

kind of a metaphor for the orange asshole.

[Tech]

6. And Vos and Fitzgerald are still thorns in our side.

Every day, when my husband gets home, I just say "fucking republicans". Every day.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. This is an expensive waste of taxpayer money. I hope that the taxpayers of WI get over the ...

con job and vote the idiots that negotiated these contracts with a cost of $4.5 billion. Good grief. States are climbing all over each other in their frantic bids to get jobs to their states and look at what happened...WI is in the hole for $4.5 billion, the job market is probably already at its lowest in WI (if close to the US average in jobless claims), so I'll be if and when this get build, where are the workers coming from?

What a mess...someone needs to be held accountable for this whole mess....

Each promised job is costing the state of WI $219,000. Way to go Governor Scott Walker (oh, EX-governor)...Perhaps maybe the state should (1) some provisions of the contract w/ FoxConn are in violation...Sue the company for breach of contract and sue the ones in state government who negotiated such a lousy and terrible contract.

[Archae]

8. Channel 12 in Milwaukee went to Pennsylvania...

To look into a Foxconn promise that went nowhere.

https://www.wisn.com/article/foxconn-pennsylvania-factory-delivered-less-than-expected/27443666

[Initech]

9. That's the art of the deal, folks!

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Our nominee should campaign at ALL of these sites. People remember the coverage

of him doing this shit and believe he's actually doing something. They do not read stories like this. Hell, the greater portion of them don't read at all.