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To: rbg81
You do realize that we now count fast food restaurants as an “industry”, right?

McDonald's isn't an industry? They had $23.5 billion in sales last year. $4.3 billion in net income. So what were they?

If you're confused and meant to say that Big Macs count as manufactured goods, you're mistaken.

27 posted on 06/23/2009 3:02:07 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

There was some talk a few years back about changing the classification of food preparation (including fast food) workers from service to manufacturing. I had heard that they actually did it, but a google turned up nothing but articles that said it was being considered. Its not that this would have added that much more to the value of manufactured goods, but it would have swelled the number of “manufacturing” jobs by a lot (> 2M). This would also have had the advantage of making loss of real manufacturing jobs seem less acute than it actually is.


28 posted on 06/23/2009 4:18:14 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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