US factories enter longest stretch of rapid growth in 30 years

AFP via Yahoo ^ | 08/02/2004 | AFP

[zencat]

The American manufacturing sector sped up activity in July, cementing the longest stretch of rapid growth in more than 30 years, a survey showed.

[zencat]

Dems - "This is the worst economy since . . . "

[mewzilla]

Tiny Tom is deeply saddened :(

[MJY1288]

John Kerry questions the timing of this survey :-)

[DoctorZIn]

This article has been posted to DoctorZin’s New News Blog!

[litany_of_lies]

This is good news, right?

[Lil'freeper]

Good news. But it doesn't count unless Kerry is President*.

*< /SARCASM >

[Willie Green]

It is a grotesque misinterpretation of data put out by Purchasing Managers.
This report erroneously takes full credit for manufacturing finished goods while failing to reflect the ever-increasing proportion of imported materials and components that have been outsourced offshore. It is becoming more representative of warehousing and distribution activity, NOT manufacturing activity.

[GailA]

For dems it is the worse economy since Hoover...lack of tax money to spend on failed social programs.

[mgc1122]

Alternate headline - Democrats remain "deeply saddened" by the news

[TopQuark]

Oh no, you should not post such good news: this will really upset the anti-corporate crowd that wines about outsourcing.

[guitfiddlist]

It is a grotesque misinterpretation of data put out by Purchasing Managers. This report erroneously takes full credit for manufacturing finished goods while failing to reflect the ever-increasing proportion of imported materials and components that have been outsourced offshore. It is becoming more representative of warehousing and distribution activity, NOT manufacturing activity.

Willie, I frankly do not appreciate your constant warnings on this subject. I just bit the bullet, and am preparing to go to China for an extended period to investigate and do business in both manufacturing and services - and I don't want a flood of Americans over there competing with me. Not kidding.

Everything's fine, folks. Stay where you are, Chinese wages will come up from their sub-dollar averages to equalize with our $20+ per hour loaded averages any day now.

[RedWing9]

reflect the ever-increasing proportion of imported materials and components

Are you saying that manufacturer output using imported materials and components should not be counted? If I build a desk using pre-fabricated materials from China, the desk shouldn't be counted?

If that is what you're saying, I think your wrong.

[guitfiddlist]

"Chinese wages will come up from their sub-dollar averages to equalize with our $20+ per hour loaded averages any day now."

When? Tomorrow, or next Tuesday?

Soon. The important thing is not to worry about anything...and stay put. (wry used car-salesman grin)

[Stallone]

Willie Green is an alias of Jim Robinson.

The purpose of Willie Green is to permit target practise for Freepers to keep the barrel clean and at the ready.

Introducing this moron to the site is to instill confidence in the newbies, and as a warm-up to the rest of us.

[anniegetyourgun]

You'll never convince the resident sad sacks here at FR - WG being their president.

[RedWing9]

Willie Green is an alias of Jim Robinson.

Are you an alias of John Rob?

The purpose of Willie Green is to permit target practise for Freepers to keep the barrel clean and at the ready.

So what you are saying is the thread poster is zot! material???

Whatever...

[Stallone]

Your collection of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, Stallone, they appear to have been recently painted...on contemporary canvas with contemporary materials. And on your piano, a waltz by Johannes Brahms, an unknown work in manuscript, written in modern ink...yet absolutely authentic, as are your paintings.

I am Brahms.

And da Vinci?

Yes.

How many other names shall we call you?

Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abramson.

John Rob.

A hundred other names you do not know.

You were born?

In that region of earth later called Mesopotamia, in the year 3834 B.C., as the millennia are reckoned. I was Akharin, a soldier, a bully and a fool. I fell in battle, pierced to the heart...and did not die. Instant tissue regeneration coupled with some perfect form of biological renewal.

You learned that you were immortal and--

And to conceal it, to live some portion of a life, to pretend to age and then move on before my nature was suspected.

Your wealth and your intellect...

are the product of centuries of acquisition.

You knew the greatest minds in history:

Galileo, Socrates, Moses.

I have married a hundred times, Captain.

Selected, loved, cherished.

Caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance.

Then age, death, the taste of dust.

Do you understand?

[jwalburg]