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To: Willie Green
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.

5 posted on 07/27/2004 6:07:14 PM PDT by Shethink13
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To: Shethink13

It takes a certain amount of manufacturing to produce for our consumers. It also takes a certain amount of service jobs to take care of the needs of our consumers wants that are not product related. I see very few service jobs imported. I see many products imported that could be produced here. This makes us dependent when we could be relatively independent from other nations. I do not feel this is an asset for our future welfare. Global governance and economic dependance is the vision that most of our leaders have. It will not stand the test of time.


7 posted on 07/27/2004 6:54:28 PM PDT by meenie
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