[Archangelsk]

Rush read an article last week from someone who looked at manufactirung jobs in the 1990's and found that jobs HAVE NOT BEEN LOST. It's a big lie, constantly regurgitated by the media and liberals (redundancy alert!)

Rush read a single document that runs contrary to everything else published and this is deemed credible? What is today, "I'm right and everyone else is wrong," day?

[kms61]

I suspect that it was the same Op Ed piece by Bruce Bartlett that was posted here and subsequently shot full of holes by any number of posters.

[ARCADIA]

What was the gist of Rush's arguement?

I have noticed a few Freepers posting some rant about manufacturing organizations and how they have evolved decentralized structures which outsource much of the work. They argue that since these jobs are provided through third party services, that they are tallied under services and that makes the manufacturing loss look worse then it is. Yet, if this were true we would have been reporting a massive surge in new service sector jobs. Instead we have a net loss of jobs across both sectors of the economy.

If it were only the domestic outsourcing of work then we wouldn't have a concern. Our concern is the net loss of American jobs to external manufacturing and service firms.

[LS]

No, it doesn't run contrary to everything else. In fact it is ENTIRELY consistent with all the scholarship and research which has been done from 1985 on. It's only a surprise to you guys who constantly think the U.S. is in a recession---and, I might add, many of you were saying so through the 1990s. How can we lose jobs now that we never "gained" in the 1990s?????

The U.S. share of manufacturing has been constant for about three decades. Most of that manufacturing is done at thousands of small shops that don't make a big splash when they hire 1-2 more workers. On the other hand, let GE lay off 1,000, and it's in all the papers.

[Tauzero]

"What is today, 'I'm right and everyone else is wrong,' day?"

Queue Irving Berlin:

Did you see my lit-tle Jim-my march-ing,
With the sol-diers up the av-en-ue?
There was Jim-my just as stiff as starch,
Like his Dad-dy on the sev-en-teenth of March.

Did you no-tice all the love-ly la-dies,
Cast-ing their eyes on him?
It made me glad, To gaze at the lad;
Lord help the Kai- ser if he's like his Dad.

Were you there, and tell me, did you no-tice?
They were all out of step but Jim.