From: Bill Lucy 

From the Mars probe, Mark Hessey says...
> > >> The economy is good.
> > > Where?
> >
> > China.
>
> Not necessarily, not at least, from a manufacturing point of view as it
> relates to available jobs:
> "Economists at Alliance Capital Management LP in New York have looked at
> employment trends in 20 large economies and found that from 1995 to 2002,
> more than 22 million jobs in the manufacturing sector were eliminated, a
> decline of more than 11%. The US lost about 2 million jobs, an 11% drop, but
> Brazil had a 20% decline. Japan's factory workforce shed 16% of its jobs
> while China's was down by 15%.

The question was about the economy, not manufacturing.

What you've just done might charitably be called "spinning".

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