Leigh Meyers wrote:
But just for example, how much of this is really paid into the
electro-mechanical creation of the product, and how much is paid to
someone in an office?
19 - Computer and electronic products 392.7
Can we say that HP builds those computers here? In The good ol' US of A?
or is it jobbbed out to Kyocera or some offshore corporation.
What WOULD America do with all that Trichloroeathane waste?
I would imagine that Singapore, Malaysia or China have a more ' shop
floor' oriented definition of what's 'manufacturing' and what's...
'overhead'.
These numbers are based on the same concept underlying GDP: goods and
services produced by capital and labor located in the United States.
We also have 14.2 million manufacturing workers, about 80% of them
"production" workers.
Doug
