Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin
I have freely admitted for a while now that Wisconsin is a fairly corrupt place. (And WEDC, the guys who came up with this, has been among the organizations I've pointed out the most.) That said, the more this Foxconn thing goes on, the more I realize how much we've been screwed over in Wisconsin by Walker and his cronies.<p>The Foxconn thing never even <i>sounded</i> right from the outset. Four to five billion? To manufacture LCDs?<p>I mean, I know I'm a bit more technically inclined than most people in Wisconsin, but didn't anyone stop and think for a second, "Hmmm... Wait? Isn't the future supposed to be OLED? This doesn't make any business sense for them????"<p>Now these Foxconn guys come back with a story about "R&D"??????<p>I'm just saying, isn't their entire <i>business model</i> manufacturing <i>other people's</i> R&D? So the best you'd get is R&D to enhance their manufacturing processes maybe? Throw in a small chance at some business process R&D???? (I know, it's a stretch, but I'm trying to be generous.)<p>Now again, I realize I'm a bit more technically inclined than most Wisconsinites, but does anyone else find it more reasonable to do that sort of R&D in places closer to your actual manufacturing? Even suspending that disbelief for a moment, you have to ask yourself why you'd need 13,000 people to do that? You don't. You'd just never do that if you owned Foxconn.<p>This whole story just doesn't add up. Even from the start, it never did. How could Walker and his cronies have ever fallen for any of this?