News of the Weak in Review

[From The Nation magazine, March 15, 2004 issue:]

"The recent Economic Report of the President suggests that jobs in the fast-food industry should be reclassified as manufacturing jobs. Its authors claim there's only a difference in degree between assembling a Big Mac at McDonald's and assembling an Explorer at Ford. Yeah, sure. And think what this little statistical fix would do to those embarrassing manufacturing-job-loss figures! It's the biggest Orwellian shell game since the Reaganites reclassified ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches."

Damn, these Bush folks are BOLD. Voila! Look at all those new manufacturing jobs we have now!