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Wed Feb-25-04 12:34 PM
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arghhh - missed this... did bushco really (try to?) reclassify fast food |
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jobs as manufacturing jobs? Does anyone have any details on this?
There are times these folks are so unbelievable that I can't have any reaction save screaming and pulling my hair out.
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:35 PM
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:36 PM
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Lou Dobbs even called it a Ketchup moment, and WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:39 PM
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10. I hope more folks than Lou Dobbs are talking about this. |
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geez Louise...
Lets see - we will change the formula used to calculate inflation to deweight things like energy, housing and costs of education... and increase the weight of things like entertainment... viola - low to no inflation!
Now lets make all those new Wendy's = new manufacturing jobs... voila - we have stemmed the outsourcing problem!
ARRRGHHHHHHH
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:37 PM
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3. Link to previous discussion |
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:37 PM
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said that we had to "redefine" manufacturing and fast-foods seemed to fit because assembling a burger was a "value added activity
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:37 PM
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5. I think they considered it, but didn't actually try to do so |
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Sorry I don't have a link handy, though.
:shrug:
--Peter
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Wed Feb-25-04 01:21 PM
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15. but why would they pick such a ludicrous example |
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and while... "in a box"... buried in a 400+ page document - if it was a serious question, and there was no intention to try to do it.
If the category of manufacturing is "fuzzy"... aren't there more closely aligned examples... ones that don't show "job growth" in a magnitude that might help offset the ongoing decline in manufacturing jobs?
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:37 PM
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It was inferred in the Economic Report of the President
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:37 PM
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7. Yes, and here's a link... |
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main601336.shtml
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:38 PM
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8. Yes, and you have to read Rep. Dingell's letter |
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I started another thread on Dingell's letter, but here is the link again. http://www.house.gov/dingell/Manufacturing_letter_02-23-04.pdf
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:43 PM
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11. That is the funniest congressional letter I have EVER read. |
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*snicker* Mayor McCheese for under secretary (commerce) for manufacturing....
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:38 PM
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9. Yes .... Lou Dobbs did a segment on it |
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Edited on Wed Feb-25-04 01:00 PM by proud patriot
Can you believe it ? :puke:
I mean why not reclassify Media too , They Manufacture Consent for illegal wars and all. :shrug:
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Wed Feb-25-04 12:58 PM
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Ronald Reagan was quoted as saying that ketchup was a vegetable?
I suppose if making a burger is a production job, then asking if you want fries with that is a research position.
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Wed Feb-25-04 01:00 PM
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13. He wasn't just quoted - it was policy |
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for the school lunch program, free food for poor kids, the ketchup in their free lunches was a vegetable.
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Wed Feb-25-04 01:22 PM
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16. and the person mopping the floor - |
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