This just beats all - now making Big Macs are manufacturing jobs

[For PaisAn]

I thought I'd heard everything. This about sums up the depths this administration will go to manipulate.

Making Big Macs builds jobs?

A White House wonk says building a Big Mac is a manufacturing job.

Fast-food jobs should not be considered service sector work because it actually is "combining inputs to manufacture a product" - and should be reclassified as manufacturing work, Gregory Mankiw wrote in the Bush administration's annual economic report.

...short article, more here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/166595p-145751c.html

[xray s]

1. Man... there are SO many things to nail Bush with this year

But this one has to be near the top of the list. I hope someone at moveon.org is cooking up a good ad for this imbecile's comments.

How about this. A 50ish guy gets called off the assembly line and is led to a room labeled "Bush Manufacturing Job Training Program". He opens the door to be greeted by a kid and a griddle with some burgers frying behind the door.

[For PaisAn]

Love your Ad idea

This is at the top of my list. It's like living in a bizzaro world. Learn to MANUFACTURE a Big Mac and earn minimum wage.

[Scaramouche]

2. I think it would be more accurate to call it...

McManufacturing...

[For PaisAn]

3. Thanks for the laugh

that's a good one.

[mitchum]

5. That is really good

I mean it

[Karenina]

17. Building a Better Burger.

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[MercutioATC]

4. So secretaries are manufacturing workers, too...

they take ink and paper and create reports.

[For PaisAn]

6. Precisely

they can really run with this one. Sky's the limit. The reports on manufacturing jobs growth will be forthcoming.

[Sufi Marmot]

7. If fast food service is a manufacturing job...

then it seems reasonable that those "manufacturing workers" should be represented by a union...What's good for the goose...

-SM

[Gemini Cat]

8. Damn. What a collection of wankers.

See the Americans didn't lose their manufacturing jobs afterall. You too, can build a fucking McBigMac. :argh:

:dem:

[HawkerHurricane]

9. Typical

If you don't like the way the numbers are coming up, change how you count them...

Isn't that how this guy got elected?

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. George Bush is a manufacturing worker

He manufacturers more bullshit than all the the cows in Texas combined.

[bvar22]

11. NEWS FLASH: Shit Shoveling now a Manufacturing Job!

A shit shoveler combines the input from several small piles of shit to manufacture a Product: a large pile of shit!

[rman]

12. if fastfood then why not restaurant kooks to? nt

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[union_maid]

13. It's so wonderful

I love Gregory Mankiw. He's writing the Democratic campaign ads for them at no extra charge. First "outsourcing is good" and now mcmanufactuing! I'm telling you, we have a shot. They're not evil geniuses. They're evil idiots. Since the invasion of Iraq, everything they've done has blown up in their faces like a trick cigar.

[indigo32]

14. they are so clueless

it's funny. Sometimes though when I sit and can't imagine how they could possibly win this fall, I remember then they stole it the first time round. Jesus H Christ.

[DiverDave]

15. Raygun tried to say

that ketchup was a vegetable.
The repuke mindset strike again.

[SilasSoule]

16. This has got to be right up there

with "ketchup is a vegetable"

[Nlighten1]

18. hey...if ketchup can be a vegatable

why can't assembling burgers be nanufacturing? Time to unionize those burger flippers.

[Razoor]

19. this is insane

I saw this on CNN and thought good grief. isnt it like common knowledge how to put a hamburger together? Mankiw is a total moron if he thinks people are going to be flocking to fast food places to work for minimum wage and little to no beneifits. Hopefully we can use this in the upcoming election against *