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Originally Posted by Mick
To which has absolutely nothing to do with what was being discussed about Ford, do keep up. But yes let's delve a little deeper. He did not actually spend it, it was a tax break deal and keeping those jobs actually saves more than that amount in unemployment benefits, given average weekly state benefit is about $400. So do the maths..... $400 x 750 x 26 (weeks claimable) = $7,800,000.
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So those are the consequences he threatened business with, we'll give you a wheelbarrow full of cash, I'm sure most people would have judged going by his rhetoric pre election that things would be going in a slightly different direction than corporate welfare.