Does Bush really want to reclassify macjobs as manufacturing ones?

[question everything]

Was on CNN crossfire. This way Bush can claim that he actually added manufacturing jobs. Is this a joke?

[david_vincent]

1. Trees cause pollution

and ketchup is a vegetable.
It's your Republican hit parade!

[OldCurmudgeon]

19. get with the times!

Not only is ketchup a vegetable, so is mercury.

[tom_paine]

2. Not a joke. Orwell was right.

Yes, they are trying to do that.

As Soviet as Brezhnev are our Imperial family and their Stooges.

They just rationize their Tyranny using different ideals. Same Tyranny.

[Skittles]

3. not a joke

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

[brokensymmetry]

4. A joke?

Why, yes, it's a joke...on us. Somehow I don't feel like laughing....

[distortionmarshall]

5. lol - all of these things need to be looked upon as tests.....

.... of the american public.... we've been failing a great many of them over the years..... i think makinow is to be credited, tho, for making the statement without cracking a smile....

the enronization of america continues....

[displacedtexan]

6. Lou Dobbs just showed that * econ policy guy explaining it.

He said that McDonald's workers 'manufacture' hamburgers.

and it was the * econ guy who said outsourcing was good for the country!

[BootinUp]

7. Everyday that goes by I am heartened by the

Gaffes out of this administration. I am beginning to believe that we will win in Nov. Can't wait for the celebration.

:party:

:beer:

[Bandit]

8. Bush* has a manufacturing job.

He is manufacturing LIES constantly.

[proud patriot]

9. Hey... Media is "Manufacturing" Consent

:think:

[Nanski]

10. This is great

I sent it on to my (retired manufacturing union guy)Dad. He's a republican who is really pissed a Bush & Co. He'll be happy to know that Bush thinks the guy making him a burger is a skilled laborer like he was.

[proud patriot]

17. Welcome Underground Nanski

:hi:

[tkmorris]

11. I don't understand why

but these guys are really killing themselves. I never thought Rove et al were the geniuses they were made out to be but just lately they couldn't possibly appear more incompetent. Fast food is a "manufacturing job", outsourcing is a GOOD thing, Iraq is now free as long as they don't want to be Islamic, privatizing Medicare is "helping seniors", and on and on.

We should step aside and watch these clowns implode. Seriously.

:beer:

[RainDog]

12. they also did a report on this on Marketplace on pbs

I heard it on my way home tonight...

and, yeah, I couldn't believe it.

Bush should have his job reclassified as massager of truth.

but if service jobs get reclassified as manufacturing, then it's time for service job unions!

burger flippers united.

or F-U, bush...

on days like today I think I have to stop paying attention because it's driving me crazy.

[allalone]

13. if making burgers

is manufacturing and is now skilled labor, doen't that then make the burger makers inelegible for overtime under the new rules because they are skilled?

[Stephanie]

14. They are so freaking DESPERATE!

They are cornered like rats in a trap. They are scrambling so hard to hide their lies and crimes of the past three years that they are resorting to desperate measures. They can't even pretend anymore that their stories are credible. It's tacit that they don't believe what they're saying and neither do we.

[sweetheart]

15. Smoking Weed is "manufacturing"

I take a titanium pipe, fire and some grass and produce smoke with
it. Geez, i din't know i was manufacturing.... well, given the new
definition, surely manufacturing employment is at an all time
high... :-)

[PVnRT]

16. Of course he does

People should just be happy they have jobs, right? (Actual argument heard from dipshit right-wingers).

[tedzbear]

18. If we do that...

...it will cut back half of the services jobs and make that part of our economy look bad (unless * counts them twice).

:bounce:

[dfong63]

20. the white house has become a lie factory