Author Topic: Bush says this is manufacturing... (Read 789 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** March 09, 2004, 11:32:04 AM »

Who does he think he's kidding?

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2004, 11:39:47 AM »

If she gives birth, its manufacturing babies. Whats the problem?

gofaster · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2004, 11:40:53 AM »

And ketchup counts as a vegetable in the food pyramid.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2004, 11:41:42 AM »

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Originally posted by gofaster
And ketchup counts as a vegetable in the food pyramid.

Mini D · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2004, 11:48:25 AM »

You mean Clinton... right MT? Afterall, one of his more infamous quotes involved pointing to a "help wanted" sign at a McDonalds and saying "See, there's jobs"

Or is this thread just an attempt to show thud that the anti-Bush BS is every bit as retarded/prevelent as the anti-kerry BS?

MiniD

midnight Target · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:02:50 PM »

Nope, this is real. Bush wants to reclassify fast food and food service jobs as 'manufacturing'. Why? So the stats will look better.

Service jobs like fast food are the largest sector of our employment base. If these jobs are reclassified it will "look" better for the economy because manufacturing jobs are multipliers. That means that for every manufacturing job created there are on average about 3 supporting jobs created.

It's all smoke and mirrors, and it would be BS no matter which party were doing it.

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:06:49 PM »

Here ya go..

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:10:10 PM »

MT now that you have the link up I agree with ya.

vorticon · « **Reply #8 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:12:42 PM »

there manufacturing obese people...

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #9 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:16:03 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Here ya go..

THE ARTICLE SAID:

"The (White House) report does not recommend that burger-flippers be counted alongside factory workers."

Unless I missed something the article explicitly says that the white house is explicity against such a change in classifications...

YOU SAID:

"Nope, this is real. Bush wants to reclassify fast food and food service jobs as 'manufacturing'. Why? So the stats will look better."

More liberal lies and exxagerations, I guess you cant help yourselves but to misrepresnt facts.......

Curval · « **Reply #10 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:16:08 PM »

They manufacture hamburgers don't they? I mean, they take a bun, put some cooked (sort of) meat on it, and add vegatables and condiments.

They also manufacture greater sales: "Would you like fries with that?"

Fine idea George. Good on ya mate.

midnight Target · « **Reply #11 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:23:01 PM »

"The report does not recommend that burger-flippers be counted alongside factory workers.

Instead, it concludes that the fuzziness of the manufacturing definition is problematic, because policies — like, for example, a tax credit for manufacturers — may miss their target if the definition is overly broad or narrow.

But reclassifying fast food workers as manufacturing employees could have other advantages for the administration. "

ravells · « **Reply #12 on:** March 09, 2004, 12:24:15 PM »

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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
THE ARTICLE SAID:

Unless I missed something the article explicitly says that the white house is explicity against such a change in classifications...

Unless I missed something, I didn't see that in the report either.

Way I read it, the article stated tha the report said that the line between manufacturing and services was a blurred one in some occupations, it mentioned the hamburger issue and then finished up on outsourcing. (or would that be out-saucing - ho ho).

Far as I can see, the change of 'burger makers' from service to manufacturing was not endorsed or criticised by anyone.

Ravs

Mini D · « **Reply #13 on:** March 09, 2004, 01:03:56 PM »

MT... you're quoting the article, not the report. Like I said... more anti-bush BS or were you really trying to make a point here?

gofaster · « **Reply #14 on:** March 09, 2004, 01:28:15 PM »

You know, going back and re-reading the article, I can see the bias in it. Nowhere does the article specifically state that the administration is going to reclassify the definition, only that the report admits that there is a problem in how the term is defined. The article is biased in that it claims that it would be beneficial for the administration to define a fast-food restaurant as manufacturing and therefore misleads the reader into believing that the administration will re-define "manufacturing" to include hamburgers because it would be beneficial for the administration to do so.

Yellow journalism exposed.

Democrats manufacturing political ammunition.

But it is true that Reagan tried to define ketchup as a vegetable for the federal school lunch program as a cost-cutting measure.