From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Gov. Whitmer Touted 12,000 EV, Battery Jobs. Billions Later, Only
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:17:04 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-06-15 12:39, Loran wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-06-15 12:17, Loran wrote:
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-15 12:02, Loran wrote:
>>>>> Alan wrote:
>>>>>>> theyve-created-200-jobs
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So $1 billion actually spent so far...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A fine 20 million $ /job, lolol!
>>>>
>>>> How many jobs has Wisconsin's $4 billion paid to Foxconn created?
>>>
>>> How many times will you point to one thing when caught lying about
>>> another?
>>>
>>> https://reason.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-finally-admits-it-wont-create-13000-jobs-in-wisconsin/
>>>
>>> " The Foxconn folly was the brainchild of former Gov. Scott Walker, a
>>> one-time darling of the Republican Party who has now vanished from
>>> the political scene."
>>>
>>>
>>> But he wasn't their governor then:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Wisconsin_state_government
>>>
>>> Wisconsin Party Control: 1992-2024
>>>
>>> Tony Evers (D) was:
>>>
>>> https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/30/tony-evers/gov-tony-evers-doesnt-tell-whole-story-claim-new-f/
>>
>> Read your own cites more thoroughly, Loser-2:
>>
>> 'The plan dramatically scales back promises of 13,000 jobs and $10
>> billion in investment negotiated under former Republican Gov. Scott
>> Walker that would have cost the state nearly $3 billion. But the
>> companyâs proposed LCD manufacturing facility in Mount Pleasant never
>> came to fruition, and the company now seems to be shifting its focus
>> to create a wider range of products on that campus.'
>
> "Seems"?
>
> Citation of proofs?
>
> No, none.
>
>> Furthermore:
>>
>> 'At the groundbreaking in June 2018 [when Walker was still governor],
>> President Trump praised the plant, describing it as "the Eighth Wonder
>> of the World".
>
> So?
>
> That's what it was sold to him as.
>
>> The Wisconsin state [Republican-controlled] legislature granted
>> Foxconn special legal privileges within the Wisconsin judicial system.
>> In 2018, the Walker administration shifted up to $90 million in local
>> road funding to road work related to the Foxconn factory. The state
>> spent $252 million on widening a portion of I-94 from six to eight
>> lanes in anticipation of the increased traffic generated by the project.'
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconn_Valley_Science_and_Technology_Park>
>>
>
> Guess what his replacement is up to:
>
> https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/06/wisconsin-governor-uses-sneaky-editing-trick-fund-public-education-2425/8431688695709/
>
> July 6 (UPI) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, used a sneaky
> editing trick allowed by state law to amend the state's biennial budget
> to fund public education for the next 400 years.
Looks like deflection from the topic when you're losing, Loser-2
:-)