**Ah, you are aware of the already existing automotive manufacturing implosion at Delphi, not just the impending one at GM and Ford, aren't you?**
Of course. Yet if there were already job cuts from Delphi, there nevertheless was the gain in manufacturing jobs reflected in the November 2005 data.
If the Delphi situation is also an estimate on jobs yet to be lost, you're headed toward the same logical precipice that Roberts already plunged from.
** Which begs the question about your views and MNJonnie's....who is making the more egregious "error"? **
Strawman argument. It begs nothing.
If the Delphi cuts occurred, then the November gains in manufacturing came despite the Delphi cuts. If the Delphi cuts have not occurred, then that's an attempt to compare the actual apples of the past to the speculative oranges of the future. It's a logical fallacy.
** Seems clear to me it isn't Roberts, at least so far as the economics of things. **
Of course it's Roberts who has blundered. He served up half-baked ideas that were riddled with egregious errors -- because Roberts has an anti-Bush agenda. I've refuted multiple points he spewed. It would be unfortunate to see others plunge over the same cliff as Roberts.
-George
Sorry, but you have failed despite mighty rhetorical exertions, to demonstrate a single error by Roberts.