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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jul 31, 2017, 12:24 PM Jul 2017

Scott Walkers $3 billion fraud

When Scott Walker announced his candidacy for the President of the United States on July 13, 2015, he sent an email to supporters explaining why he was running for the Republican nomination.

“I’m a conservative because I believe in a smaller government, lower taxes and a free market,” Walker wrote.

744 days later, sharing a stage with Donald Trump, the man who defeated him, Walker announced he was giving $3 billion in taxpayer money to a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, Foxconn. The company is best known for making component parts for the iPhone and other Apple products. The stunning deal is 50 times larger than any previous public incentive package.

The Foxconn factory will likely be located in the Congressional district of House Speaker Paul Ryan, an Ayn Rand acolyte and avowed champion of free enterprise. Ryan, who joined Trump and Walker for the announcement, lashed out Obama for supporting “big business” with “crony capitalism” in a 2012 column entitled “Republicans Must Return To Free Market Principles.”

https://thinkprogress.org/scott-walkers-3-billion-fraud-a03f181105ec

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Scott Walkers $3 billion fraud (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
It is not crony capitalism, it sound free-market principles when Republicans do it. MiddleClass Jul 2017 #1

MiddleClass

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1. It is not crony capitalism, it sound free-market principles when Republicans do it.
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 03:37 PM
Jul 2017

I can't wait to find out the backhander. Probably feathering his retirement

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