Foxconn will gladly take our money, but we don't have the right to know what they're doing?

After getting an unprecedented jobs and investment package and having well over $1 billion in infrastructure set aside for them, A top Foxconn executive is now complaining that they can’t do whatever they want with their Racine County project.

It has been difficult for Foxconn Technology Group to operate in Wisconsin because the firm doesn’t have its usual freedom to alter plans as economic conditions change, a key executive says in a video circulating in the firm’s home country, Taiwan.

“Foxconn has never been operating in such a fashion before,” Louis Woo, special assistant to company founder Terry Gou, said of the firm’s activities in Wisconsin. “Now we are almost like living in a glass fishbowl, and we are the only goldfish inside that bowl.”

Yes, God forbid Wisconsinites actually care about what happens with the billions of taxpayer dollars we might give to them.

Thank you, Mr. Foxconn?

What’s even more remarkable is that the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel story quotes Woo as saying that business-as-usual for Foxconn involves hiding details about their projects.

When Foxconn builds factories, he said, the company doesn’t normally tell people how large they will be, when they’ll be finished or how many employees they’ll have.

“No, because it’s all commercial secret, right?” he said. “And because we have to have the liberty to change from time to time given the economic condition of that country changes or because of the job demand changes, because our customer would have a different demand on different products.”

“So we must have that liberty, but in Wisconsin we don’t,” Woo continued. “So that’s why I think is very difficult for us.”

You know why you don’t have that liberty, Louie? BECAUSE WE GAVE YOU BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND OTHER SWEETHEART DEALS.

But if you find the public scrutiny so suffocating, I have a simple way this can be solved where you can operate as you see fit. Give us our money back. Shoot, we won’t even charge you for the upgraded Foxconn Freeway of Death. Just give back everything you’ve taken from the state and the Village of Mount Pleasant, and bring back the same environmental rules that existed beforehand, and maybe we’ll call it even.

Or you can work a deal where you leave Wisconsin and don’t ever come back. Heck, at this point I’d pay these guy $50 mil to go away, and the state would still probably be better off.

The arrogance of Foxconn is breathtaking. It’s yet another example in 2019 about how the super-rich and politically connected really do think they’re entitled to get whatever they want without any regard for accountability to their handouts and higher status in society.