[Paul Ross]

If real GDP has increased that means they claim that manufacturing has also increased.

Really? It's fairly evident that the NAM site was working the import lobby side of the issue, since the importers co-opted the ogranization.

Share of GDP as a measure? Get "real". Let's look at real numbers. Then we can tell if they and you're dealing with 'real GDP'.

Hedonics represents a given evidence, admitted via Greenspan no less, that our GDP numbers don't carefully extract the foreign componentry from U.S. claims of production.

And furthermore, your own economagic web site's absolute numbers disproved you. So it is clear that real production was at best static, or more likely declined outright after adjusting for inflation...ie..making the numbers 'real', and as a percentage of GDP...if it was, in fact, "stable" there...the conclusion is profoundly more credible that the GDP numbers are not 'real' either.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Let's look at real numbers. Then we can tell if they and you're dealing with 'real GDP'.

Sounds good. The chart I posted didn't say if it was adjusted for inflation or not.

And furthermore, your own economagic web site's absolute numbers disproved you.

No it didn't.

So it is clear that real production was at best static, or more likely declined outright after adjusting for inflation...ie..making the numbers 'real', and as a percentage of GDP...if it was, in fact, "stable" there...the conclusion is profoundly more credible that the GDP numbers are not 'real' either.

Great, now all you need is a reputable source that agrees.