Foxconn incentive package could total up to $3 billion

[TheReal_ND]

Average salary is negotiated to be 53k. I find it amusing you faggots look down on people that work for a living. Wisconsinites are going to remember these jobs for a long time when it's time to vote.

Faggots

[The Conservative]

Which of course comes around to the GMI debate. It's likely far cheaper to pay those people directly rather than filter it through a corporation. Better yet, pay them to paint the fucking rusting bridges all over the country. Every one is a symbol of our failing as a nation.

Why not do some real good, and have a 20-year program to rebuild our infrastructure from the outside in? Start from the water ways, and spread out into the country. Since doing so would interact with electrical, and transportation, as well as communication you got all three interacting and being repaired at the same time.

Bridges, water, electricity, and communication would all be improved where it's needed. Create a true redundant infrastructure, take away the power from the companies that "own" the telephone poles, and bring it back to the communities and states. Allow free market interaction with said poles, and the best company able to work with the upgraded infrastructure wins.

We have spent too long with the same old shit, and been treated just like that.

OMG, I agree with you 100%. The reports of carbon generation utilities undermining alternative energy make the case compelling. But you just said to nationalize the entire grid, didn't you? Kinda commie, no?

Where you going to get the moulah bro?

By getting rid of corporate welfare to create jobs, and just create jobs.

In the state of Mass, we have one real electrical company, "National Grid"... take the name as you wish, but to me, it sounds like the company is already trying to become a national electrical/gas company for everyone.

That being said, it wouldn't be nationalizing anything, it would be bringing back the power back to the states that owned them originally. Companies like Comcast, Verizon, and National Grid scammed a lot of states to give them control over the poles because their services were better equipped to keep everything running.

Instead, we have had a stagnation of technology and infrastructure because no other company unless the owner of the poles will allow a competitor to come in unless they are small and insignificant, and even then it's hard to do so...

For those that ask, "Where would we get the money?" This would be another "New Deal" concept, except we would take those that are able to work that don't on welfare, etc, and get them to work at a "living wage" without being on the tit of the state they live in. We would also get more people who do want to work that have been looking for real "blue collar" working jobs and have a career out of this.

It would not replace welfare for those who need to be on it because of mental or physical limitations, but for those who are on it because there are no jobs around that they can do, or the jobs that have gone missing as of the last 16 years + or so.

As for the financial return, we would see people spend more money, and save money as well, the only thing we would require would be a way to do a strong checks and balances to keep from abuse happening.

[brewster]

Wisconsinites are going to remember these jobs for a long time when it's time to vote.

And that's the precise point of giving away $3B. But they'd vote for you if you gave them a job painting bridges too and we'd have a bridge that will last for generations instead of rusting out long after Foxconn has cleared out as soon as the goodies dry up. Because that's what happens every time. In 15 years the bidding will open again.

[Zlaxer]

Average salary is negotiated to be 53k. I find it amusing you faggots look down on people that work for a living. Wisconsinites are going to remember these jobs for a long time when it's time to vote.

Faggots

No - man - you don't get it.....the state is spending beacopup $$$ to bribe a business to come in....its a bad precedent....when the gained benefits run out - Foxconn will look for a new handout.....

Nothing wrong with working for a living - but this is setting up a race to the bottom...

[TheReal_ND]

faggots all

[heydaralon]

A lot of those Foxconn employees are overpaid. After all, there are people in Africa who would be willing to make iphones for a handful of rice and assurances that their family won't be hacked to death by machetes.


I really hope these incentives keep the wonderful corporation interested in making new apple products. I would be devastated if they don't come out with a new iphone.