Posted on 04/02/2016 4:00:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The United States lost 29,000 manufacturing jobs in March while gaining jobs in retail trade, food services and drinking establishments, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
During the month, jobs in the retail industry in the United States outnumbered jobs in manufacturing by 3,651,100.
In February, according to seasonally adjusted data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the manufacturing sector was 12,320,000. In March, that dropped to 12,291,000. …
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I’m sorry, I posted before I realized that you don’t understand what the service industry actually is.
Obama Akbar!
Our family members are all still employed but we, like most people we know, do not spend any money unless it is absolutely necessary. Shopping is confined to the grocery store and there is absolutely no eating out.
Really? Physicians, architects, ophthalmologist are in the service industry same as retail, food Services, hotels?
LOL..As usual you’re FOS rudy.
McJobs gaining—real jobs, not so much.
If we raise the minimum wage enough, we can eliminate all poverty because everyone will be making a living wage! [/sarc]
Bartending jobs increase because Americans are becoming like the people in the old USSR...They get drunk to forget how bad things are......
Obama has us drinking more. Makes sense.
A service job gained does not balance a manufacturing job lost.
Manufacturing creates a tangible product that creates wealth.
That is one of the reasons they generally pay well in terme of salary and benefits.
“Service” jobs do not.
And in general they pay less and offer fewer benefits.
I look at those as service jobs too. The reason is this: I’m an HVAC contractor, even when I do a new installation in a new building I did not create anything but merely put together what others themselves manufactured.
Physicians, architects, ophthalmologist are in the service industry same as retail. Yes, they simply used equipment manufactured by others to do a job. Even builders use equipment manufactured by others and put them together to build buildings. Even auto workers, sure it may be considered manufacturing, but in reality they too use equipment manufactured by others assemble them together to make a car or truck. Steel workers, of which the Chinese have decimated, actually manufacture things for other to use and assemble together.
Attorneys, physicians and architects are in the service industry? Just like those in hotels, amusement parks, and chicken licken slop joints? And here I thought those others were holding professional level positions...lol. Right..
Btw, the HVAC install industry was taken over by illegals in the southwest many years ago along with all the others which were considered labor intensive. Years ago it was considered good pay positions. Not so much now.
Un-PC comment here:
Manly jobs lost. Girly jobs gained.
Not every guy wants to be a waiter.
Not every woman wants a full-time job (especially if they could get a part-time one and have time for their kids), much less one in manufacturing.
No answers for this, except, if you’re a guy, I guess you should get a manly hobby, and if you’re a woman, I don’t know what to say.
How much wealth do drinking places create?
See # 7; in my area, people with families and mortgages dropped out of the bar scene years ago (and the town had a big bar culture in the past). Nowadays the customers are younger people with neither of those, with no intention of ever having either of them; bars give them something to do while others are working second jobs to keep their homes or tending to their children.
If you are creating desirable out of the earth, air, fire, or water then you are creating wealth. Don’t know what your brother does. Maybe, maybe not.
Some recovery; 7+ years, 9 trillion dollars and none of us got to use a penny of it.
Or to paraphrase a joke, Barry spent 9 trillion dollars on booze for this Countries grave, and none of got to pass it through our kidneys first.
(well, very few of us did)
Which creates more wealth and jobs? The person who makes the hamburger or the person who makes the equipment that makes the hamburger.
Taxes and regulations are the excuses and cover story for offshoring to get the cheapest slave wage possible and to re import duty free. The sad thing is so called conservatives foal for this shtick every time.
You are mistaking value added with wealth creation. Wealth creation; mining, growing and manufacturing. That's it.
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