Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later
There&#x27;s an NPR podcast (I will try to recall a link) on how the local town &#x2F; county government was willingly duped into being the gullible country folk who would agree to give Foxconn such huge subsidies for the promise of jobs.  And how some more cautious citizens really fought against the secrecy being applied to the whole deal by the town council.<p>Sometimes you have to have the self-awareness to ask yourself, 
here I am, a country-simple and inexperienced elected official, who&#x27;s being presented with a huge fantasy of a deal (well beyond my order of magnitude experience), and being asked to keep this secret from the press and constituents.<p>Is it likely that I&#x27;m such a good negotiator and master of finances and state incentives and my town is so special, that the huge company I&#x27;m dealing with (with dozens of analysts) is asking me to keep it secret because they&#x27;re afraid of how they&#x27;re getting screwed?  Or maybe the other way around?<p>Those town council members and mayor got taken for the ride of their lives by their gullibility and desire for national politicians to chalk up a headline, which of course, never materialized.<p>Edit: oh, I see someone has just posted the Reply-
all podcast link to that story, thanks!