Manufacturing Jobs - McDonalds ?

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Remember the Burger flipping ad that IBM did about RPG and Java?

Well,  That burger flipping is now a manufacturing job !

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Building Blue-Collar  Burgers?
But reclassifying fast food workers as manufacturing employees could have
other advantages for the administration.

It would offset somewhat the ongoing loss of manufacturing jobs in national
employment statistics. Since the month President Bush was inaugurated, the
economy has lost about 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, according to the
federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. That continues a long-term trend.

<Now here's the beauty part >

"When a good or service is produced at lower cost in another country, it
makes sense to import it rather than to produce it domestically. This
allows the United States to devote its resources to more productive
purposes," the report read.

<Now don't you feel better?   We may lead the world in Manufacturing again
via burgerking.   Boy, this Bush thinks of everything>

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/20/politics/main601336.shtml