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This Naomi Klein piece brilliantly weaves together multiple threads--about the economy, Team W., and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal--in a way that I've vaguely contemplated, but am far too stupid to articulate. Read the whole thing, but here's my favorite tidbit:
Over the past year, 272,00 manufacturing jobs have been lost. No wonder the President's Economic Report in February floated the idea of reclassifying fast-food restaurants as factories. "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?" the report asks.
Perhaps Mayor McCheese can be the new "manufacturing czar."
Posted by Paul Demko at May 18, 2004 4:10 PM
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