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Apple Supplier Foxconn Confirms Plans to Build TV Display Factory in Wisconsin
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But there is a big difference between 3000 and 13,000. Not only that, this is Trump. He is constantly stretching the truth. Why is it he can never get facts straight.
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Yes, but they are a submissive work force....sleep in dorms.....they should build the plant in Illinois were the jobs are really needed...screw Wisconsin.....BTW why do you think ALL of the Trump Family products are made everywhere BUT the USA....cheap labor.
You must have a very different definition of what makes something "global" than I do. I would say a global company is a company who sells products pretty much without exception all across the globe.
You seem to be saying that a global company is a company that has headquarters that are evenly distributed across the globe. Does that sound about right?
Oh come on, you are woefully uninformed. First off much of Apples product line was in fact manufactured in the USA. Second; allied industries, for example CRT manufacturing existed in the USA and supplied many manufactures. How do I know this - simple I grew up not to far from a a plant that manufactured CRT's in up state New York. Much of this manufacturing left the USA due to collusion with large manufactures and the government of the USA.
Here is the reality; when you lose a manufacturing plant you lose a lot more than the plant as all industries associated with that business suffer. Those businesses can be anything from the local bar & grill to the electrical apparatus supply house. This is why the lost of manufacturing has so damaged the USA, it exports an amazing amount of wealth out of the country concentrating wealth into the hands of the already wealthy.
So in a nut shell you are completely wrong, Trump is bringing back manufacturing jobs to the USA. These are modern jobs but would you expect anything different? I mean seriously would you want to see old technology jobs coming back to the USA?
Once upon a time Apple had a US factory where it manufactured Macs.
Your latter statement is blanket political bias.
To me it just reads “dont care for Trump, you know you feel me”
And yes there is a difference of 10k, to be precise.
But lets say he does hit 13k, what next ? You would’ve wished it were 26k?
Or if it is over that, would you call him out for being a liar by exceeding expectations?
I don’t know, but it appears that to his harshest critics, it’s never enough no matter the semantics.
So people get hung up in semantics
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For example, even being a critical critic of our past president, if he opened a Foxconn factory here, no matter the #’s or my distaste for his policies in general, I would applaud it. Because its a step in the right direction and I like steps in the right direction. And admitting that is more important than staunchly defending my stanch or ego. I’ll be a hypocrite to applaud a president I critique. And ill be a hypocrite to criticize a president whose policies I generally like. I’m not contractually bound to them in any capacity.
Good things are good, not bad, even if from someone you generally dont like.
Woohoo! Thanks to President Trump and Foxconn for making this happen for the BETTERMENT OF AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE!
MAGA.
MAGA.
Exactly. I'm just saying you should probably wait to start heaping praise onto Apple until Apple is actually involved in some way.
Is it important that American companies build factories outside the USA? If foreign companies create jobs in the USA that’s great. My issue is with some who frame it as if these companies have a duty to do so, like when Trump supposedly told Tim Cook if he doesn’t build factories in the USA he will make Trump’s administration look bad.
This is Mac rumors. You know the drill.
I dont know that saying this is a step in the right direction, and modestly, a start, is exactly a “heap of praise”either.
I’d qualify it as just praise,
More like 7 Billion and 3,000 jobs tops.
Serves me right. That's what I get for reading CNN.
Will be completed by 2020.
So at the end of his first term. And people are still wanting to ‘rationally’ (Really emotionally) argue self-made RUMORS that this is/could be a Obama policy spillover/there were chatters about this in the Obama admin.
Doesn’t get more deluded than that imo
Trump's stretching the truth and numbers has been documented. Not a political bias.
So should we get rid of ATMs because they’ve killed off bank teller jobs. Or self checkout at the grocery store? How many B&M jobs has Amazon killed off? Should they be punished for that? I know Trump would love to stop progress and take us back to the 1950s but that isn’t happening.
I wish it was an American company but still nice to see. I wonder about the blue collar thing, can a guy working in a stell factory transition to this factory?
Why are familying if you only make $7.25? It isn't your employer's responsibility to feed you or your family. It's yours.
So you're saying CNN IS fake news as they are reporting the 13k / $10B numbers.
If this FOXCONN plant opens up this will be awesome. Very hesitant since they pulled out to open one in PA back in 2013. I hope it does happen though.
Excellent news for the good people of Wisconsin and the United States. As an American, I'm happy anytime more of my fellow countrymen have an opportunity to get an honest job, live life, and support a family.
So nothing about Apple building three "big" factories. And nothing any time soon. Do folks remember that Foxconn has promised to do this for some time, predating the Chump? Foxconn promised to build a factory in Pennsylvania in 2013. They're still waiting.
While 3000 jobs seems like a good number, Amazon -- who the Liar-in-Chief hates and rails against on an almost daily basis -- will be hiring 50,000 next week. At least 40,000 of those will be full-time, permanent jobs. Many of those jobs will be immediate hires. Just months ago Terry Gou was bragging about bringing 50-60,000 jobs to US factories.
I can only imagine what Wisconsin is giving away to Foxconn. The Pennsylvania EDC was practically begging Foxconn to come to the state and until recently the state was thought to be in the lead in landing the factory. They had meetings with Foxconn in Taiwan. New York State has at least $600 million to build a factory on cleared, shovel-ready land, cheap/guaranteed financing, tax incentives and, like Pennsylvania, was practically begging Foxconn to join the Marcy Nanocenter tech hub.
While 3000 jobs seems like a good number, Amazon -- who the Liar-in-Chief hates and rails against on an almost daily basis -- will be hiring 50,000 next week. At least 40,000 of those will be full-time, permanent jobs. Many of those jobs will be immediate hires. Just months ago Terry Gou was bragging about bringing 50-60,000 jobs to US factories.
I can only imagine what Wisconsin is giving away to Foxconn. The Pennsylvania EDC was practically begging Foxconn to come to the state and until recently the state was thought to be in the lead in landing the factory. They had meetings with Foxconn in Taiwan. New York State has at least $600 million to build a factory on cleared, shovel-ready land, cheap/guaranteed financing, tax incentives and, like Pennsylvania, was practically begging Foxconn to join the Marcy Nanocenter tech hub.