hog: surely you realize that there is more to construction and development than what you see in your own neighborhood. wilmington is currently booming in construction, too -- condos to house the relatively wealthy folks moving from up north to retire mostly. the local economy, however, remains stagnant with a high unemployment rate across the board.

i invite you to read this:

In February, the Bush administration proposed reclassifying employees of fast-food restaurants as manufacturing workers. The idea appeared in the Economic Report of the President, which questioned the inclusion of fast-food restaurants in the service sector and suggested reclassifying such businesses as manufacturers. The report said that the current system for classifying jobs "is not straightforward ... When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?" David Huether, the chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said that expanding the definition of "manufacturing" would produce statistics showing more jobs in that sector, WHICH HAS BEEN IN DECLINE.

(Source: David Johnston, "In the New Economics: Fast-Food Factories?" New York Times, February 20, 2004. See article at: independent-media.tv.)

Grond,

First let me state that both the Bush and the Kerry economic plans stink. Really. I don't favor either. The post about the taxes is easlily found on google and it appears that you are not in favor of them.

My question about this is, if, according to the Kerry tax plan, you will get at least some tax releif, whatever it might be, is worse than not getting any tax cut at all from the Bush plan?

Cav, I have read this before... not sure which link it was on... but to push this one instance and stand steadfast on it does what??

Lets take the making of a Hamberger... Ok you have empolyed the person who takes the order.. you have employed the person who does the cooking of that Hamberger... you also have a Manager who sets the schedules for these employee's and thus you have your Happy Meal... behind the scenes is what? you have the Manufatcurer (Employee's who maintain the assembly line and their supervision)of these Hambergers to which come frozen from a warehouse (warehouse workers who get the orders and shipments out to these Chain fast food resturants, plus their supervision) then you have the Truck Dirvers and companys who haul this Manufactured goods to their Locations...

and to through out Wealthy people moving up north who are building condos to house mostly retirement is not an arguement... these people still give to the economy and they also are producing jobs with spending to build in these locations... you are trying to spin something that isn't there... the gloom and doom economists could not actually give you an accurate date we may fall into a recession... they want to dwell on the fact that it's going to happen... they are less reliable then a weather person....

My Dad always told me, You want to make money and feed your family... stick with Construction... because as long as people are going to be F*ckin theirs going to be some building going on!!!!

BTW have you downloaded and read Kerry/Edwards Plan for America yet??

Hog

hog, i will as soon as i can. my dinosaur of a computer is acting up again -- having trouble downloading, opening word a .pdf docs and can't print a )(@#$ thing. 😞

Thom,

The point I was trying to make was that I have to HIRE people to qualify. Hiring someone costs more money than the tax break I'm getting. I would rather hire someone because I need them... because the economy is booming. A straight tax break to people who pay taxes puts more money in their hands to spend. More money in their hands to spends means more money will spent... which means the economy will continue to grow.

Increasing taxes has the opposite effect, except for the select few on whom the governments bestows their contracts and of course it increases the spending on administrative/non-productive clerical and compliance staff which does nothing for the economy.

Cheers,

grond