To: Erik Latranyi
The United States makes more manufactured goods today than at any time in history, as measured by the dollar value of production adjusted for inflation...The good old numbers game. It doesn't mean, as your abbreviated post would have people believe, that we manufacture more. It means it's worth more based on some imaginary number.
27 posted on
09/03/2007 6:04:49 AM PDT by
raybbr
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To: raybbr
The good old numbers game. It doesn't mean, as your abbreviated post would have people believe, that we manufacture more. It means it's worth more based on some imaginary number.OK. Let's go with your premise. Then the trade deficit, which is based on the VALUE of goods, it just an imaginary number as well.
What basis do you want to use? Number of horse carriages produced? Number of punch-card computers manufactured?
I guess you also missed the part where we produce 25% of the world's goods, based on value.
29 posted on
09/03/2007 6:25:25 AM PDT by
Erik Latranyi
(The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
To: raybbr
It means it's worth more based on some imaginary number.Imaginary number? Adjusting dollars for inflation is not an imaginary number. It produces real numbers that can fairly be compared.
To: raybbr
It means it's worth more based on some imaginary number.You mean, like the price maybe?
46 posted on
09/03/2007 8:49:36 AM PDT by
BfloGuy
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