Lost in the stunning foot-marksmanship of the Trans Tweet was a bit of what the Self administration could have touted as good news: Foxconn, the company that assembles your iPhone and has labor conditions so horrifying workers stage mass-suicides, has announced that Scott Walker’s right-to-work Wisconsin is the sort of place they could do business.
That the 3,000 jobs the company will bring come at a subsidy/tax break cost of $244,000 per worker still wouldn’t have dimmed the shine of this great, free-market victory Himself could have touted.
Other than the usual perfunctory tweet, however, Himself didn't spend much time crowing. He did, however, make what some felt was an odd comment on Foxconn’s announcement in his Tuesday interview with the Wall Street Journal. (The WSJ piece is pay-walled, so I will be quoting from the Albany Times-Union story on the aside.)
rump said upstate New Yorkers should pick up and move to states like Wisconsin, which have better job prospects. "You're going to need people to work in these massive plants," Trump told the Wall Street Journal. "I'm going to start explaining to people, when you have an area that just isn't working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt, and then you'll have another area 500 miles away where you can't get people, I'm going to explain, you can leave. It's OK. Don't worry about your house."
Got it? If you have any problems getting whatever you want, just walk away. Don’t worry about your property (or the binding contracts you’ve signed with the bank). Just say fuck it. Tell your mortgage holder, “You’re fired!”
Believe him, you can do this. Oh, sure, maybe some pencil pushing putz will write you a letter about it, maybe even threaten to sue you. But you can threaten them right back. Call Marc Kasowitz and have him threaten to counter-sue. They’ll back down.
As for the equity you’ve worked to build in the place, who cares? It’s only money, right? Plenty more where that came from.
Assuming your money comes from Deutsche Bank and Vlad’s made men.