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Sun Oct-24-10 06:54 PM
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| 13. the company i work for sells manufacturing databases to mid size companies. |
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if we weren't still manufacturing a lot here we wouldn't be in business.
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| -We don't make anything. We just push paper. |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Oct-24-10 05:04 PM |
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You have to consider how those numbers are reached. |
Greyhound |
Oct-24-10 05:12 PM |
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And we export the design of i-phones |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Oct-24-10 05:18 PM |
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Just as Stiglitz has been ponting out for years, we need to change how and what we count. |
Greyhound |
Oct-24-10 05:37 PM |
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Good question "who are these measures measuring for?" |
glitch |
Oct-24-10 06:50 PM |
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Are we measuring China's GDP as our own then? |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 07:42 PM |
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Yes, we are defining GDP solely for the benefit of corporations' shareholders and top executives, |
glitch |
Oct-24-10 07:49 PM |
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Yes - |
KT2000 |
Oct-24-10 05:26 PM |
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Using U.S. territories is another weaselly way they game that system. |
Greyhound |
Oct-24-10 05:39 PM |
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Are you sure? |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 07:38 PM |
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Intermediate goods are not counted in a country's GDP |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 08:00 PM |
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Graph of employment vs output |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 08:27 PM |
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Yes. Like the other responders wife, ensuring that our production reports conformed to the rules |
Greyhound |
Oct-25-10 12:07 PM |
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You need to look at what we don't manufacture any more |
Warpy |
Oct-24-10 05:16 PM |
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+1000000000 |
Klukie |
Oct-25-10 12:11 PM |
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Those numbers sound strange. When people like Imelt, CEO, G |
OHdem10 |
Oct-24-10 05:19 PM |
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Aha! The point |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Oct-24-10 05:29 PM |
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Didn't they reclassify |
Thav |
Oct-24-10 06:23 PM |
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The Military Industrial Complex. |
corkhead |
Oct-24-10 06:24 PM |
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yep..we DO manufacture |
backwoodsbob |
Oct-24-10 06:29 PM |
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the company i work for sells manufacturing databases to mid size companies. |
dionysus |
Oct-24-10 06:54 PM |
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Do the people in Canton, Ohio know that? |
proud2BlibKansan |
Oct-24-10 07:50 PM |
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China's Share of Advanced U.S. Manufacturing Market Soars |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 09:18 PM |
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interesting thing about chinese manufacturing is how high a percentage of it is wholly foreign-owned |
Hannah Bell |
Oct-25-10 12:45 PM |
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I was ready to post some scathing response.. But you got it. We make stuff |
Pavulon |
Oct-24-10 09:24 PM |
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What do you think then about China's recent advancement (see my above story)? |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 09:53 PM |
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I have no problem with china, not ANTI china, just PRO US. |
Pavulon |
Oct-24-10 10:02 PM |
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I think this thread should be renamed "We don't make enough. We nudge some paper." |
OlympicBrian |
Oct-24-10 10:23 PM |
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it is now actualy illegal to have much manufacturing in the USA. Read about the NAFTA, IMF |
truedelphi |
Oct-24-10 10:30 PM |
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