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We have a general unemployment rate at 3.7% and engineers are even lower, so where are they finding these people.
Amazingly, high-paid professionals aren't falling over their own feet to escape their hellish lives to enjoy the vibrant cultural and professional environment in Wherever, Wisconsin. So to answer your question: They find them in China.
The article indicates over half of the 13,000 will be in engineering and research, professional series. So where did they expect to find several thousand engineers in Wisconsin. This has always been the problem in the rust belt and other locations, they do not have the training or education so these hires will have to come from elsewhere. We have a general unemployment rate at 3.7% and engineers are even lower, so where are they finding these people.
Well, they could start with finding grads from the University of Wisconsin. But wait! Walker has decimated their budget! And he's watered down tenure for professors - many of whom want to leave....
Brilliant! Happy now, Wisconsinites? Scott Walker took money out of your pockets so that Foxconn can import their own people to take on the well-paid jobs.
I honestly don't know who are dumber - Scott Walker or those who vote for him.
Ah, well - everyone knows they are business-hating communists at the WSJ.
So you have any information to dispute the facts reported in the wsj -- or are you like Hannity -- just saying fake news because you don't like the content.
So you have any information to dispute the facts reported in the wsj -- or are you like Hannity -- just saying fake news because you don't like the content.
$4.5 billion over 15 years will be paid to Foxconn. Note this $4.5 BILLION is not a credit, it is cold hard cash handed from the Wisconsin state government (ahem, taxpayer's money) to the bank account of Foxconn. That's $300 MILLION a year to create 300 blue collar jobs, or $1 MILLION per year to create one blue collar job.
Winning.
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Making Taiwan great again. The OP know foxconn is Taiwanese?
After a couple decades "conservatives" may figure out what we have been trying to tell them. Operations like assembly of iphones takes 1-2 MILLION or more workers. We don't have them. Not only don't we have them, but if we did I really doubt 17-24 year olds would be signing up by the millions to sit and wipe down iphone screens and pack them into boxes.
The situation we already have is perfect. Because of the Apple (for example) eco-system, we have millions of high paying jobs and almost none of them simple factory assembly line work. We also get the largest percentage of the profits - by far!
Instead of cheering about low-skill jobs, why not revel in the fact that perhaps we have passed that point and skim the cream off? That's the way of the world last time I heard.
So you have any information to dispute the facts reported in the wsj -- or are you like Hannity -- just saying fake news because you don't like the content.
I ran face-first into Poe's Law there - I was, in fact, being facetious.
However, on reflection: The Wisconsinites will undoubtedly be able to pick up jobs in the service industry. Taiwanese speak Mandarin, right? If the good folks of Wisconsin learn some useful phrases, such as "I will bring your car around, Sir" or "I'm here to clean the pool" or - if they're feeling confident "It is customary to tip in America", they'll recoup some of the 4.5 billion, I'm sure.
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