Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy
Headline: National Review, 7/17/2023
It also closed the latest chapter in the sad and often infuriating story of Lordstown Assembly, the workers who occasionally got to build cars there, and the politicians who loved to give companies millions and millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promise they’d keep voters employed there. It’s a modern public-policy farce, rife with players that are themselves the protagonists of their own economic-development horror stories.
One of those recurring characters is General Motors, which built Lordstown Assembly in 1966. The plant had its highs and lows over the decades: It was the home of the iconic Pontiac Firebird of Smokey & the Bandit fame, but also never quite managed to scrub away the stench of being the source of the notoriously terrible Chevy Vega.
Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:
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2021
GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker. (8/11)
The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2). (5/12)
2020
GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them. (10/23)
Keeping tabs on Foxconn Place in
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