Posted on 08/31/2020 10:42:22 PM PDT by weston
. I was using voice recognition to type and I said Dem as in Democrat but it printed D**N ..... well that’s not far off.
Free[=dame. showdown time .. about time. the libs are doing their best to destroy our country and our constitutional rights. If “consenting’ adults decide to attend and not wear masks and not social distance.. it is their choice as free people..
Jen and I have had many “heavy discussions” on this
She is a mask, fear, creature.
I am not.
sigh .. such is life.
I was thinking the same thing, where did these numbers come from?
Building Blue-Collar Burgers?
BY JARRETT MURPHY
FEBRUARY 20, 2004 / 9:13 AM / CBS
Manufacturing jobs making things like airplane engines, cars and farm equipment are disappearing from the American economy.
Or are they? According to a White House report, new manufacturing jobs might be as close as your nearest drive-thru.
The annual Economic Report of the President has already stirred controversy by suggesting the loss of U.S. jobs overseas might be beneficial, and predicting that a whopping 2.6 million jobs will be created in the country this year.
As first reported by The New York Times, the fast food issue is taken up on page 73 of the lengthy report in a special box headlined “What is manufacturing?”
“The definition of a manufactured product,” the box reads, “is not straightforward.”
“When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a ‘service’ or is it combining inputs to ‘manufacture’ a product?” it asks.
Manufacturing is defined by the Census Bureau as work involving employees who are “engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”
But, the president’s report notes, even the Census Bureau has acknowledged that its definition “can be somewhat blurry,” with bakeries, candy stores, custom tailors and tire retreading services considered manufacturing.
“Mixing water and concentrate to produce soft drinks is classified as manufacturing,” the president’s report reads. “However, if that activity is performed at a snack bar, it is considered a service.”
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.
It would offset somewhat the ongoing loss of manufacturing jobs in national employment statistics. Since the month President Bush was inaugurated, the economy has lost about 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. That continues a long-term trend.
And the move would make the growth in service sector jobs, some of which pay low wages, more appealing. According to government figures, since January 2001 the economy has generated more than 600,000 new service-providing jobs.
The annual economic report — most of which consists of charts and statistics — has been the focus of unusual scrutiny this year, perhaps reflecting the presidential campaign and concern about the lack of job creation despite an ongoing recovery.
The report first touched off a furor with a statement regarding the “outsourcing” of U.S. jobs overseas, where wages are lower.
“When a good or service is produced at lower cost in another country, it makes sense to import it rather than to produce it domestically. This allows the United States to devote its resources to more productive purposes,” the report read.
The statement, which reflects standard economic theory about the efficiencies of trade, was denounced by Democrats and Republicans alike.
“These people, what planet do they live on?” asked Democratic presidential candidate and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Even Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert wrote to the White House protesting at the claim.
The president’s top economic adviser and the lead author of the report, Gregory Mankiw, replied to Hastert that “My lack of clarity left the wrong impression that I praised the loss of U.S. jobs.”
Critics of the White House also seized on a chart in the report that suggested the administration expects 2.6 million new jobs by the end of the year.
“I’ve got a feeling this report was prepared by the same people who brought us the intelligence on Iraq,” said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, a Massachusetts senator.
The White House insisted the figure was just an estimate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/building-blue-collar-8230-burgers/
Counting burger flippers as manufacturing jobs is one place Biden gets those numbers.
Tom Cotton is too valuable as a politician. I think Cruz would be the best choice.
Where is the social distancing at that rally?
thats great! Must have been earlier in the year.
great point!
I don’t think it’s a recent video, but it’s still good!
I have thought from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that we should have been given full information about who exactly was getting sick, needing hospitalization or were dying and then letting free Americans make their own decisions about how much they wanted to go out, how much they wanted to do, etc.
. Americans voluntarily did two weeks and then four weeks. One was “slow the spread” and one was “flatten the curve” After that we should’ve had more specific information and been able to live our lives like they have in South Dakota. That state is our Sweden and they are doing very well.
You STILL haven’t got your stimulus check? That’s crazy!
sometimes I think about telling someone something. And it goes into my “finished” file in my brain.
I was kinda hoping to see Judge Jeanine Pirro’s name on that list
I like the Judge. Perhaps she’s more valuable where she is...she’s doing a good job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LJhaat0iTg
President Trump Delivers Remarks on Judicial Appointments
3 people, I helped to fill the non-filier form are still waiting for stimulus. All three of them had zero income in 2019. I called on their behalf thrice, still waiting.
Noncitizens who are now back to their country and they were present in the USA for 2017 and partly in 2018 and returned back to their country had received stimulus checks in their country.
Citizens inside the USA are still waiting.
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