Hypothetically; If you discovered Bush *had* pumped up the mfg jobs
numbers by
including fast food workers, would you defend his doing so?

No.


Good answer. :-)

Now, do you have a list of the occupations included in the "mfg. jobs" section
of the report you noted? I went to the bls website
you referred to, and found a gazillion reports, files, etc etc etc going back
many years. Can you offer a more definitive link that will demonstrate that in
spite of the administration's stated intention to reclassify burger flipping as
a manufacturing job, they have not, in fact, done so? (Or had not done so in
the time period covered by the report?)

I'd really like to be wrong on this one. It would be better all around if the
administration wasn't pumping up the number of manufacturing jobs merely by
expanding the number of job classifications defined as "manufacturing."