Retiring Guy's Digest: Foxconned: Lordstown Motors corporate welfare debacle in Ohio

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:

2023

July

Wisconn Valley. Voltage Valley. File under 'Foxconned'. (7/16).

Read a review of an EV truck you'll never drive. (7/12)

Add India to the list of places where Foxconn has pulled out. (7/11)

Lordstown Motors debacle: Sounds like Foxconn has more mischief up its sleeve. (7/11)

Lordstown Motors continues to swirl down the toilet. (7/10)

June

Embattled Lordstown continues to make headlines. (6/29)

It's another Foxconn debacle as Lordstown Motors files for bankruptcy. (6/27)

Vote of 'no confidence' from Lordstown Motors founder Steve Burns. (6/22)