Thanks to my uncle for bringing this to my attention. In the down-is-up, Alice-through-the-looking-glass world that is the Bush administration, it’s no surprise that a new presidential report suggests reclassifying fast food restaurants from the service sector to the manufacturing sector. #

In the New Economics: Fast-Food Factories? (link should be non-registration-required) #

David Huether, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said he had heard that some economists wanted to count hamburger flipping as manufacturing, which he noted would produce statistics showing more jobs in what has been a declining sector of the economy.
“The question is: If you heat the hamburger up are you chemically transforming it?” Mr. Huether said.
His answer? No. #

I give ‘em full marks for creativity. Now if they could just figure out how to reclassify laid-off workers as solo entrepreneurs. #

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