Apple said Monday that it will create 20,000 jobs and open a new manufacturing facility in Houston as part of a more than $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years.
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Those "20,000 jobs" may not be for US citizens though.
Arizona knows, as Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company, TSMC Arizona, has brought their own workers to fill jobs.
Tremendous boondoogle!
This article has more bullshit than a Texas cattle yard. How about asking apple how they'll deal with the increased cost on the metals they use, or the fact that Texas has one super crapola power grid for running any factory.
I am not sure. This almost feels more like a "just say it now and figure it out later" kind of thing. Trump likes the announcement more than the actual implementation. So it's 50/50 chance this ever happens. Playing to Trump to try and keep the government off their back for a while.
I agree /trump likes to say things to put people in a tizzy and his follow-through on many things sucks.
But the fact that he is doing it and messing with state and city business that isn't federal, and that no Rs are complaining about his overstep into realms not his, is hypocritical, at best.
according to people who know more about it than me, it has some scandium mines. mayyyyyyybe, it has lithium, there are surveys but no actual mines because the early surveys showed lithium-bearing ores with contaminants that are hard to remove 🤷♀️
Texas gives mad tax breaks and has lower regulations as well as lower than average pay. It's not completely crazy that this would be true. Especially if it's quid pro quo with Trump.
They're moving to Texas specifically for the tax breaks. Probably the fact that the Houston area has lower than average pay and these mega corporations help keep pay low played into it as well.
High property taxes, high energy costs. I have seen posts from people that are paying $1,200 in the summer for power. The grass is not greener. maybe for the company, not for the worker.
I admit I can’t read the article because of the paywall, but just the headline, taken in conjunction with reports of deaths and serious complications with pregnancies in TX, makes me ask why Apple would locate in TX and why any woman or man who loves a wife, partner, mom, sister etc would live in TX
...in Texas. I couldn't give a squat about any jobs created in Texas for the tax breaks and lower than national average pay. Good luck folks in Texas, these mega corporations that are moving there and creating all these jobs are just keeping your average pay low.
Apple made precisely the same claim at the beginning of the last Trump administration, and they did absolutely no such thing. They did build a small Mac Pro manufacturing facility in Austin, but it was a disaster and they then moved it to China.
Lots of tech cos will be strongarmed into making the latest "Foxconn" announcement for all the Big Wins. All some future super mega big investment and loads of pretend jobs.
They are just playing the game, nothing will ever be built. They told Trump about a concept of a plan so he can pretend to get a win and leave them alone.
Texas, that lets women die of septic shock rather than give them a medical abortion. The US that has eliminated DEI everywhere and hates everyone that's not a strait, white, male. Apple should be ashamed of themselves.
So, they'll get rare earths from Ukraine and parts from China to make their products and they throw a few job openings out to create smoke screen for Apple's marriage to DT. They are like the wiz in wiz of oz (esp at the end).
I mean, where are they going to base themselves, if not the US? Europe? Under threat now from both the US and Russia? Nope, big silicon valley tech, is squarely in the fascists pockets now, wonder how long it will be before they realize Trump is litterally killing their businesses
C'mon now... I learned by watching fox that democrats are an evil cabal of baby sacrificing half-breeds that only exist to melt gun metal, coddle murderous immigrants, and make sure men can invade women's bathrooms and sports across America!
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Arizona knows, as Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing company, TSMC Arizona, has brought their own workers to fill jobs.
Tremendous boondoogle!
But the fact that he is doing it and messing with state and city business that isn't federal, and that no Rs are complaining about his overstep into realms not his, is hypocritical, at best.
Orange blob making deals😕
I should maybe point out that I was ironic, due to orange conman's latest nonsense🥳❤️
hahah - just kidding.
And they did nothing
Let's castrate it,
Starting with your daddy bezos,
shall we.
I won't be buying anything you make ever again. I don't care where you make it or whose boot you're licking to do it.
At this point, fox can probably scream it at the top of their lungs and the cult STILL wouldn't believe them. Not their rapist traitor savior!!!
C'mon now... I learned by watching fox that democrats are an evil cabal of baby sacrificing half-breeds that only exist to melt gun metal, coddle murderous immigrants, and make sure men can invade women's bathrooms and sports across America!
Now THAT'S what I call being "informed" 😑
"What goes on in the mind of a trump voter, and what would drive them to vote for such an obviously unfit buffoon?"
🤔
🤣🤣