Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Politicians - Say anything!
And never let the facts get in the way...
This was posted bt Daniel Griswold at cato-at-liberty.org:
"On the eve of today’s crucial Pennsylvania primary, here is how the Boston Globe described a scene at a Hillary Clinton event in the western side of the state:
'We need to still be a manufacturing nation,' she said at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh yesterday, as a woman in the crowd shouted 'Right on!' 'I don’t think a country that doesn’t make things can remain strong and vibrant and leading in the global economy.'
Right on? Not exactly. Implied in Clinton’s remark is that manufacturing has been in decline and that we are in danger of becoming a nation 'that doesn’t make things.'
One huge problem with her statement is that manufacturing output in the United States has continued to EXPAND in recent decades. According to the Federal Reserve Board, America’s factories produced 30 percent more in real output in 2007 than a decade earlier and three times more than in the 1960s."
