Making burgers is a manufacturing job

[Theophylact]

(perhaps). And ketchup is a vegetable...

[RayH]

There is no confusion. Cooking is part of the food service. Bush is trying to bolster "manufacturing jobs" to prove the economy is improving.

[Epidemic]

Where did making burgers fall before.

You take a RAW material and reform it into another that is manufacturing.

So you don't consider it manufacturing??? so mixing two or more chemicals to make a plastic glop is manufacturing but taking a cow removing undesirable parts and making them into patties is not

[Epidemic]

Oh you mislead me there with the title. Well perhaps I misread it to mean the actuall reforming of cows into patties not the burger assembly plant

[Epidemic]

"The question is: If you heat the hamburger up are you chemically transforming it?" Mr. Huether said.

His answer? No.

Ummmm. Yes actually you are changing the chemical makeup of the product. Oils and fats are changed at the very least. Sometime you even transform it from protien to carbon like when someone asks to destroy a burger by making it well done.

Translation ruined


I think the simple definition of manufacturing would be how the product leaves the facillity. If it leaves by truck then it is manufacturing, if it leaves by car then service

[M_Six]

David Huether, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said he had heard that some economists wanted to count hamburger flipping as manufacturing, which he noted would produce statistics showing more jobs in what has been a declining sector of the economy.

Just what RayH said. Future spin fodder.

[Epidemic]

How many administrations have been in power while this has been a topic of discussion? Or is this a new battle.

What other transitions like this have taken place over the years?

Manufacturing eh? Doesn't assembly fit under manufacturing? If so, then hamburger flipping is indeed manufacturing. You're assembling varying food items into one desirable unit in any of many combinations. That's assembly, regardless of what the parts may have been to begin with.

But I just wanted to say that. Honestly, how do they figure that showing more active jobs is going to help the problem?

[Mike]

Originally posted by Whir
Honestly, how do they figure that showing more active jobs is going to help the problem?

Deception? Make it look good on paper, most people are sheep - Why would they investigate? Or care?

I dunno. In the end even political jobs are based on the economy. You'd think any intelligent person would want to fix the problem and secure their job rather than lie and hope he doesn't get whacked along with the hundreds of people that get laid off every day. But hey, that's just logic.