The state of Michigan has targeted with investigation the owner of a horse farm who refused to sell to a Chinese Communist Party-linked company that proposed a battery plant nearby – a project that state officials had promoted, offered to fund and badly wanted.
A posting revealed Lori Brock, owner of Majestic Friesians Horse Farm in Big Rapids, was being investigated for runoff from her property into waterways.
She described that as nonsensical.
“For 20 horses on 150 acres, there’s no way I’m in violation of anything.”
Brock had refused to sell to Gotion, a company that, she said, lied about its ties to Communist China.
Then she held an anti-Gotion rally at her farm.
Her problem, of course, is that the governor, Gretchen Whitmer, is all for the battery plant and the state expects to contribute millions of dollars to the project.
I don’t care how many jobs will be “created” or how much revenue a business will bring into an area, It IS NOT the responsibility of GOVERNMNENT to spend MILLIONS of tax dollars luring a company to do business in their chosen setting.
ESPECIALLY a foreign business and ESPECIALLY a foreign business from a country that OPENLY CLAIMS a desire to dominate and control the world, which is what China itself says is their intention.
From building stadiums to battery plants, and then GIVING THEM TO ALREADY WEALTHY people (or companies, or nations), politicians should let private enterprise fund their own schemes.
I wonder how many people (POLITICIANS and bureaucrats) were bribed and paid off in or to facilitate this transaction??
Very well stated LMCLAIN
Too bad gretchen whitmer wasn’t fed to the fish