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Amtrak a victim of getting closer to sucess?

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[quote user="schlimm"] I don't think the question of loss of manufacturing jobs and whole industrial segments domestically is a settled matter, but your point is taken.  However, you missed two of my points; one, concerning the number of jobs in the two categories used by BLS vs what appears to be a much larger number from NAM; and two, your contention that the BLS was including farm, etc. workers in the category of Production.  It certainly does not. And since you made a point (Compensation), it is hardly our job to assume you made it mistakenly, especially when you reiterated it, but rather to show the large difference between compensation and wages/salaries, so that there can be no confusion. [/quote] I did not miss your points.  I did not feel any need to comment on them.   I have withdrawn the NAM numbers regarding manufacturing employment and compensation.  Unfortunately, several people missed the key point, i.e. the U.S. is still the largest manufacturing country in the world, and instead jumped on essentially irrelevant points. Suffice it to say that the differences between the BLS statistics, which deal only with employment, and the NAM numbers are mostly a function of timing, categorization, location, and the statistical methodologies used by the BLS.
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