Did Foxconn’s Trump-Backed Move to Wisconsin Create Jobs or Catfish the Public? | The Daily Show

Trump's promise in 2016 to bring back manufacturing jobs was a major appeal in the Upper Midwest and in Trump's first year in office the artist of deals delivered them a masterpiece foxcon will invest in southeast Wisconsin electronics manufacturer foxcon is opening its first major US Factory in Wisconsin investing 10 billion dollar of their own money to do so that's right Fox Cod the Taiwan based company that's good at making iPhones and great at making their employees jump off buildings the fox conon deal in Mount Pleasant was as golden as the shovels Trump brought to the groundbreaking I I think we can say this is we can say the eighth wonder of the world so to learn more about this Eighth Wonder of the world I spoke with Alan Young the business genius responsible for bringing foxcon to Wiscon love business love big business I love great businessmen you brought manufacturing to Mount Pleasant what do you love most about Wisconsin the cheese or the high rate of alcohol ISM it turns out Wisconsin actually to our benefit was the right choice and the vision really was to create what we call Wiscon Valley the 1010 billion project slated to create up to 13,000 jobs all right high-tech job creation local Country Bumpkin Kelly Gallaher must be ecstatic foxcon came to town they promised us the world then they us because our village officials are morons look lady I came here to do a feel-good puff piece about foreign corporations creating jobs for Farmers or whatever okay are you telling me that's not happening they promised us 13,000 jobs in A1 billion investment we got a few hundred crappy jobs we bulldozed a 100 homes moved people out used eminent domain against them and except for a few buildings that foxcon H has put there it's basically empty well you can't fault foxc con for putting money into this town and trying to make something happen but they didn't put money in on it unfortunately the Village of Mount Pleasant decided instead of making Fox conon buy the land that they wanted for their Factory our parttime village trustees they said we'll do it for you we borrowed nearly a billion dollars so a bunch of Village idiots borrowed a billion dollars to get Foxon to come in Fox Kon comes in and goes hey we give you guys civilization take you out of the Farms well we like our Farms what was foxcon promising to build well first they said they were going to build large screen LCD TVs amazing I love those a few weeks later they changed it that they were going to build small LCD screens the kinds that you get in the car and so I love those too I love all screens then they announced that they were going to build coffee robots Okay but you know what who doesn't like coffee that didn't happen either and right now nobody knows what they do inside that building okay it's 3,000 square acres of land do you know how much 3,000 square acres of land is of course not I'm not a dumb F you should really go check it out fine I will this simple villageo wasn't making any sense Allan and foxcon assured the residents of Mount Pleasant they will be bringing a stard tech hop to its Barren farmland but instead all foxcon built was a bunch of roads to Nowhere what the hell two empty warehouses and a lame disco ball in the middle of an empty field hell I needed answers where the hell is everybody I was told there 13,000 jobs here sorry sir Ju Just wondering where are the jobs at the jobs there 13,000 jobs this can't be right and even if there aren't any jobs or products or transparency surely Foxon has a plan I would say that over the past few years everybody learned a few lessons I think the story line is happening and story is a good one it really is trailblazing and making pioneering decisions even though it might not make sense even though it makes absolutely no sense well okay absolutely no sense but uh right now I think we're in the chapter two or chapter three of the whole thing chapter 11 of the well you don't want to get there right well the the outcome was job creation you you really shouldn't care if you real potato chips or micr chips potato chips or micr chips who cares just make something that's what people want for Fox con to make something in this Factory it takes a village it it takes a village to build a factory that makes nothing you got me there alen did a great job at showing the very thin line between genius business plan and scam okay I think I see why you're so upset you got catfished do you know what catfishing is yes I do but what who benef what why did they do this if it's so bad for everybody why did this happen well it was really Donald Trump oh here we go again it's the largest failed publicly funded economic development project in Wisconsin history possibly in US history thank you in true Trump fashion he made a promise never delivered and left someone else holding the bag was there any way to turn this development disaster around more breaking news now Microsoft could be coming to Mount Pleasant this is a huge win for the vill Microsoft came to town and they announced a $3.3 billion investment project and 2,000 full-time jobs okay 2,000 is quite a step down from 13,000 but those 13,000 jobs were never real what they even making there it's going to be an AI data center wait but that if it's a AI center it's going to take jobs they're going to replace workers they going to end up with less jobs than before well it's better than nothing actually no because no jobs will be zero this would be negative jobs cuz it'll be taking other people's jobs all I know is that these are 2,000 real jobs a godamn villagers there jobs man you guys talk about anything else here in business not everything turns out the way you want it to but hey with a little Ingenuity and some American cand do Spirit you too could turn 13,000 jobs into 2,000 and put your whole village into debt great job [Music]

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 11 2024