Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Please do not start calling my home state ‘Wisconn Valley’

How do you follow up a deal to bring a Foxconn plant to Wisconsin at an estimated government subsidy of $1 million per $54,000 job created?

If you’re Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, you start calling your state “Wisconn Valley.”

This probably supposed to be a muddled phonetic approximation of “Silicon Valley,” but it’s pretty hard to read it as anything other than a weak portmanteau of “Wisconsin” and “Foxconn.” And one of Foxconn’s main competitors is named, uh, Wistron, so I’m sure CEO Terry Gou is thoroughly enjoying this taxpayer-funded troll.

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16079566/wisconn-valley-scott-walker-stop-this-madness

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/please-do-not-start-calling-my-home.html

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