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.”
Great energy in Eau Claire for Foxconn's $10 billion investment in WI! #WisconnValley http://pic.twitter.com/OFVM1qwysu
— Governor Walker (@GovWalker) July 28, 2017
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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