[mastequilla]

Did you miss the news about over 1 million new jobs created this year? You probably would have seen it if you weren't relyin on DNC-mouth pieces for your info.

[Moonman62]

According to the srticle, the title should read:

Manufacturing job slumps worries Boise economist

Economists elsewhere don't seem too worried.

[Shethink13]

Idaho has lost more than 8,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000. The top 7,000 had an average annual wage of $40,939. Over the same period, more than 22,000 service jobs were created, but two-thirds of those had an average salary of just $19,278.

Two-thirds of 22,000 had an average salary of $19,278? What the heck does that mean? Did they just drop the top 1/3 to determine the average? Does it then mean that the remaining 1/3 (or 7,300) had a much higher average salary? Very, very misleading statistics.

[lepton]

Idaho has lost more than 8,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000. The top 7,000 had an average annual wage of $40,939. Over the same period, more than 22,000 service jobs were created, but two-thirds of those had an average salary of just $19,278.

wow. what a deceptive way of playing with the numbers. What's the average of the top third of service jobs? (approx the same 7,000)

[Waco]

The FEDGuv has actively supported the movement of companies offshore for a good many years now. Eccos worried? I think they're lying! All is going according to plan, I'd say.

[BIGZ]

The real problem with manufacturing jobs is, High taxes, EPA, EEOC, OSHA, Litigation, Forced Medical, Workmans Comp., Local regulations piled on top of Federal regulations, on and on. You are killing the Goose that laid the Golden Egg.

This is one way to gain equality we will all be equally poor.

I often wonder if this is the agenda, no one can be that dumb, as not to see what is evolving.

[Wolfhound777]

That's because our economy is transforming from manufacturing to service and information technology. The sooner we all realize this, the sooner we can quit worrying about it. Agriculture-->Industrial-->Manufacturing-->Service-->Information.

[neutrino]

The responses to your post bring to mind a Biblical passage:

Jeremiah 5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.

Clearly, many of the responders do not understand, neither do they see or hear.

Thank you for continuing the battle.