{"id":666,"date":"2004-02-20T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/bush_mcmanufacturing_jobs_plan\/"},"modified":"2004-02-20T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T18:33:51","slug":"bush_mcmanufacturing_jobs_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/bush_mcmanufacturing_jobs_plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush McManufacturing Jobs Plan Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t create the factory jobs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/20\/business\/20jobs.html?ex=1392699600&#038;en=5e1f311d886fa004&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">manufacture the statistics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is cooking a hamburger patty and inserting the meat, lettuce and ketchup inside a bun a manufacturing job, like assembling automobiles?<br \/>\nThat 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nCounting jobs at McDonald&#8217;s, Burger King and other fast-food enterprises alongside those at industrial companies like General Motors and Eastman Kodak might seem like a stretch, akin to classifying ketchup in school lunches as a vegetable, as was briefly the case in a 1981 federal regulatory proposal.<br \/>\nBut the presidential report points out that the current system for classifying jobs &#8220;is not straightforward.&#8221; The White House drew a box around the section so it would stand out among the 417 pages of statistics.<br \/>\n&#8220;When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a &#8216;service&#8217; or is it combining inputs to &#8216;manufacture&#8217; a product?&#8221; the report asks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would obviously be a easy way for the administration to manipulate the statistics and hide 2 million lost factory jobs.<br \/>\nWill any gimmickry be off limits as November draws closer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/bush_mcmanufacturing_jobs_plan\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Bush McManufacturing Jobs Plan Unveiled\"><p>If you can&#8217;t create the factory jobs, manufacture the statistics: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}