" As of 2010, the country [the united states] remains the world's largest manufacturer, representing a fifth of the global manufacturing output."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
[citation needed] because sadly, your citation does not itself provide a proper citation. It simply links to an entire department of the UN, that is not acceptable. Can you provide a proper citation that explains what "global manufacturing output" means? Does that include things assembled in the USA from foreign parts, like International-Navistar engines with blocks cast in China? The block is the most important part of the engine, to me that motor is at least half-Chinese.
Why do people keep saying this?
Probably because they have seen no credible evidence to the contrary.
And unemployment is under 6.5%, if you don't count the millions of people that dropped off unemployment and still haven't found jobs.
Oh yeah, and inflation - according to the CPLie, I mean CPI - is like 1.5%. You can buy a whiz bang TV, better than last years model, for cheap... of course, you can't eat a TV. Meanwhile the things you use daily, like food and energy, are going up at 8+%/yr, but lets not count those as part of "inflation". Gee, we can't figure out why people seem to be cutting back and spending less - just because the food and energy they need to survive has doubled in the past 10 years while their incomes have stayed stagnant shouldn't stop them from buying 50" 3D TVs and expensive new cars, should it?
Go back to sleep America, turn on the TV, that's it, 200 channels of fake news and American Gladiator to keep you occupied, don't read anything, don't actually learn how to do math for yourself, the news says that 2+2=22, the economy is doing great, go back to sleep America... you are free to do as we tell you, you are free to do as we tell you.
