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Manufacturing jobs

Frank Newgent

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

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.
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What about industry-specific mandates such as sugar beet root, mustard, blue cheese with walnuts, pineapple, catsup or pickles?
 
some economists wanted to count hamburger flipping as manufacturing, which he noted would produce statistics showing more jobs in what has been a declining sector of the economy.
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Yep - someone wants good statistics in an election year .... :p
 
Can you eat jewel cases?


If we go to a value added tax system Big Macs will cost $100!!!
 
if you don't like the measurement .....

change the measurement parameters ......

Unemployment looks bad ... oh my ..... what to do ....

aha - if we just change the measure criteria

Just like the special penis ruler that I gave my wife.

Ahhhh , now everything measures up

Bentspoon
 
What a great industry! Remember how many Americans improved their diets when Reagan declared ketchup a vegetable?
 
Well to me it's a service job.

Whatever next? Hamburger Technician?
Hot dog mechanic?
Fried chicken engineer?
Milkshake process worker?

Pass my vernier calipers I want to make sure your onion rings are to specification.
 
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