Trillion$$ of the porkiest-pork to insider comrades!-----Michigan House committee approves $120M more for Ford Marshall site - By James David Dickson

Michigan House committee approves $120M more for Ford Marshall site - By James David Dickson

"The Michigan House Appropriations Committee approved Tuesday a $120.3 million legislative transfer toward preparations for Ford Motor Company’s upcoming plant in Marshall, BlueOval Battery Park.
A local group, the Marshall Area Economic Development Alliance, will be granted the funds if the Senate Appropriations Committee grants its approval.
The request for Legislative Transfer 2023-4 explains how the funds would be used:

This state investment would support land acquisition, site preparation, water and wastewater upgrades, and other necessary public infrastructure improvements at the strategic Marshall mega-site, where the Ford Motor Company’s new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility, BlueOval Battery Park, is proposed to be located.

As The Detroit News reports, “Ford's total incentives for the $3.5 billion project amount to about $1.6 billion in state and local taxpayer aid once local and state tax incentives are taken into consideration.”

...Last year, Michigan lawmakers approved 

• $100 million for Ford to hire 3,030 factory workers. 
• Two months later, Ford laid off 3,000 white-collar and contract workers...