Kelly Gallagher
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No.
What? No, no, no, I'm sorry.
Foxconn came to town. They promised us the world. Then they f***ed us because our village officials are morons.
They promised us 13,000 jobs and a $10 billion investment. We got a few hundred crappy jobs. We bulldozed 100 homes, moved people out, used eminent domain against them, and except for a few buildings that Foxconn has put there, it's basically empty.
But they didn't put money in on it. Unfortunately, the village of Mount Pleasant decided instead of making Foxconn buy the land that they wanted for their factory, our part-time village trustees, they said, we'll do it for you. We borrowed nearly a billion dollars
Well, we like our farms.
Well, first they said they were going to build large screen LCD TVs.
A few weeks later, they changed it that they were going to build small LCD screens, the kinds that you get in the car. That's cool.
Then they announced that they were going to build coffee robots.
That didn't happen either. And right now, nobody knows what they do inside that building.
It's 3,000 square acres of land. Do you know how much 3,000 square acres of land is?
You should really go check it out.
Yes, I do.
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 U.S. history.
Microsoft came to town and they announced a $3.3 billion investment project and 2,000 full-time jobs.
But those 13,000 jobs were never real.
It's going to be an AI data center.
Well, it's better than nothing.
All I know is that these are 2,000 real jobs.