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I'm a fan of this government investing strategy, even if the choices sometimes fail. It's a beautiful thing. Take a look at Germany, Japan and China. None of those countries would be world leaders without government investment in infrastructure, R&D, and a slew of other things that make building a billion-dollar assembly plant worthwhile. You want to make iPhones in the US, you better make it easy on Apple.
Would you care to address what the "government investment" in this case involves? The problem is that once you start down this path (company X decides to announce that it will offshore something and gets special government treatment) then issues of equal treatment are bound to arise. This is setting a very dangerous precedent, IMHO.