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Foxconn committed to bringing 13,000 very high paying jobs to the USA. Jobs the hapless community agitator said were lost for good.
Foxconn doesn't get tax rebates if they don't do it. But they have already spent $200M project.
MSM & NPCs are still running around in circles because they absolutely hate it. Start topic after topic "Orange Man Bad" LAWL
Voters in Wisconsin will hand Trump another win in 2020.
Trump is still winning!
MAGA!
And then Waldo woke up.....
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Google only has 20,832 people working in R&D company-wide. Keep in mind, only about 20K work at their Mountain View, CA headquarters, which means that "techy" jobs are only a fraction of that number. There is no way on Earth Foxconn is putting 10K "high paying" jobs in Wisconsin when Google might not even have 10K R&D workers in Mountain View.
IBM which does has 336,000 employees and 10s of 1000s of them are in research & development. Argument fails due to facts.
Hasn't Foxconn been scaling back promises for 10 months? It's not like this was a completely sudden, unexpected about face. They went from a fully-blown manufacturing plant that was going to build TV screens to a smaller plant with fewer manufacturing jobs that was going to build tablet screens to no plant with no manufacturing jobs at all.
Here's a company with a long record of broken promises and you'd believe them because....?
Besides, Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. What incentive do they have to create jobs in the USA? They're even scrapping plans for expansion in China.
And their "high labor costs" excuse is such a ridiculously transparent lie as if it was some secret that you have to pay American workers more than $3 per day.
There are a bunch of reports about the amount of water they were anticipating needing for the manufacturing process which raised all sorts of alarm bells.
Leaving aside the fact that they've never followed through on their promises, I expect that they saw the writing on the wall with regard to years and years and years of litigation.
So Obama lied. Again !!!
He is the one that said manufacturing jobs lost weren't coming back.
Blubbering about the magic wand and other nonsense.
What did he lie about?
He said that the jobs that were lost weren't coming back, and he was correct.
These are new economy jobs, hence the need for new plants, etc.
During the Obama administration, you and his other detractors totally ignored the huge number of jobs created in the alternative energy industry as well as in healthcare (thanks to the ACA).
Why was that?
Never mind, the answer is obvious: as was already noted, y'all don't care about job creation if it occurs under a Democratic president.
Already posted a dozen times in this topic. Go back and look at my past posts. I'm not looking it up for you as rebuttal to the argument that since you haven't seen it, it can't be true.
Here's another question. Why are you hoping and searching for the worst?
I did.
Nothing current, as in this week, verifies your assertion.
As for your BS question: as you so often love to say "It isn't about me."
IBM which does has 336,000 employees and 10s of 1000s of them are in research & development. Argument fails due to facts.
LOL.
IBM employs 20,472 people across the entire New York City metropolitan area (where it is headquartered). Of this number, 4,302 are employed as engineers in any capacity.
IBM actually has more employees in India than it does the U.S. In fact, around 45,000 of its engineers are in India compared to 30,000 engineers here in the U.S.
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Today, the company employs 130,000 people in India — about one-third of its total work force, and more than in any other country. Their work spans the entire gamut of IBM’s businesses, from managing the computing needs of global giants like AT&T and Shell to performing cutting-edge research in fields like visual search, artificial intelligence and computer vision for self-driving cars. One team is even working with the producers of Sesame Street to teach vocabulary to kindergartners in Atlanta.
So yeah, if you want to cite IBM as your example, then there's no way Foxconn is putting thousands of engineers in Wisconsin when IBM barely has thousands of engineers at its headquarters and principal locations in New York.
He said that the jobs that were lost weren't coming back, and he was correct.
These are new economy jobs, hence the need for new plants, etc.
The crazy thing is that Obama said exactly that: When the jobs do come back, you're going to need to learn how to do stuff on a keyboard. We need to prepare for the jobs of the future rather than the jobs of the past.
Now here's Foxconn saying they want to create "brainy" white collar jobs rather than good ole 'Murican blue collar jobs. It looks like Obama was right.
“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S. We can’t compete,” Louis Woo, an assistant to Foxconn’s chief executive, told Reuters. “Labor prices are higher than other countries,” he added.
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