In the New Economics: Fast-Food Factories?

[hippywife]

Manufacturing jobs on the rise!! If you work at Mickey D's you may soon be working for a manufacturer. Puleeeaaasssee! This is soooo ridiculous. Another way to get those 2.6 million manufacturing jobs they thought they could promise by the end of the year.

Is cooking a hamburger patty and inserting the meat, lettuce and ketchup inside a bun a manufacturing job, like assembling automobiles?

That question is posed in the new Economic Report of the President, a thick annual compendium of observations and statistics on the health of the United States economy.


The latest edition, sent to Congress last week, questions whether fast-food restaurants should continue to be counted as part of the service sector or should be reclassified as manufacturers. No answers were offered.

In a speech to Washington economists Tuesday, N. Gregory Mankiw, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, said that properly classifying such workers was "an important consideration" in setting economic policy.



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/business/20jobs.html

[whathappened]

1. if ya

took all these fools brains out and looked at them and then put them back in there heads , there would be the same thing in there , nothing , tradeing good jobs for flipping burgers , is'nt going to make these problems we have , go awy

[cosmicdot]

2. they'll say: see, the economy is growing already ... look at these stats!

they must still think it's 1904

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

3. see latest news

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=375808>

at first I thought it was an Onion piece. This makes for great late night comedy.

[Mel]

4. Mike Malloy

is raising hell about this bs right now! I love Malloy!