go through the yellow pages yourself, you'll find mostly services. that's what the US economy is becoming - services and government.
you ignored all my serious points and replied to my light hearted attempt at humor...well?
Don't forget the "financial economy". An ever-increasing portion of the economy consists of nothing more than people trading paper (such as mortgages) all day long.
Jim Puplava made this point on his show over at financialsense.com. If you get a chance, I think you might enjoy listening to his commentary over there.
Absolutely! We've become a tourist industry in NY State. We used to have so much manufacturing here and now it's gone. Taxes killed a lot of it. Now we have services, government jobs, and TOURISM. Boy, that pays a lot, doesn't it? My first husband worked for Revere Copper and Brass in the tube mill and he made darn good money for those times. Now all these companies are going out of business because of imports. We eat our dead here!