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To: Mark Adams who wrote (19007)	5/16/2002 2:36:47 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Mark, Thanks for the attaboy. As far as productivity is concerned, I find the concept to be in need of a vast overhaul. Productivity makes some sense when an economy is based on manufacturing, and the widgets can be counted and divided by the hours of labor needed to produce each. But what is that productivity rate of a tax attorney who is scheming to move Stanley Works to Bermuda in an utterly phony paper transaction? Or of an administrator of an NGO? Or of a concierge at a five star hotel? How in the heck do you measure their "productivity"? Or a better question would be, do they actually produce anything? I find Siegel's article to be relevatory in only one aspect, that the government is using statistics for political purposes. How productive. -Ray