In response to the news that the President's Council of Economic Advisers is considering classifying fast-food jobs as "manufacturing jobs", Rep. Charles Dingell writes:
I am sure the 163,000 factory workers who have lost their jobs in Michigan will find it heartening to know that a world of opportunity awaits them in high growth manufacturing careers like spatula operator, napkin restocking, and lunch tray removal. ... Will special sauce now be counted as a durable good?
Aaah! My eyes, they burn! For God’s sake, man, it’s “lose”!
Why, yes, that is indeed a pet peeve. How could you tell?
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Ouch. I’m glad he shows so much respect to people working in fast food.
I mean, I get his point, and they don’t strike me as manufacturing jobs either… but when exactly did working in a factory become such a glamorous occupation that he should be mocking people who work in fast food? Looking at his biography he doesn’t seem to have ever had a manual labor job, himself. Hmm.
There ain’t a lot of fast-food jobs that pay $20-$30 an hour with good benefits and a full pension.
Yeah, but that’s because unions are psychotic, not because the work’s fabulous. :)
It just seemed like a really dismissive attitude to take, but I guess the unions have a lot more influence over him and what he says than the burger-flippers.
this makes me proud to be a michigander. this makes me wish i still paid taxes there.