They never had that idea. If you read the original paper, you'll see that there's a sidebar to a discussion of providing incentives to firms that produce manufacturing jobs. The sidebar discusses the need to correctly define a manufacturing job so that you don't include a job at McDonald's as a manufacturing job and give the incentives to Mayor McCheese and company instead of to the real manufacturing firms that you're trying to target.
Honest to God.
People who write papers like this use this sort of example all the time. It's a way of examining your assumptions. If you define a manufacturing job as "assembling components to make a finished product", well, then you've defined making a hamburger out of patty, bun, and assorted condiments as a manufacturing job. And you don't want to do that.
And neither did the author of the paper, no matter what misleading information your news provider may have given you about it.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2004-09-16 05:50 pm (UTC)Woohoo!
Also glad to see they got rid of that dumbass idea of counting fast food jobs as part of the manufacturing sector...
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Date: 2004-09-17 09:20 am (UTC)Honest to God.
People who write papers like this use this sort of example all the time. It's a way of examining your assumptions. If you define a manufacturing job as "assembling components to make a finished product", well, then you've defined making a hamburger out of patty, bun, and assorted condiments as a manufacturing job. And you don't want to do that.
And neither did the author of the paper, no matter what misleading information your news provider may have given you about it.