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Showing Original Post only (View all)'Privatize' is doublespeak for 'Looting'. [View all]
Anytime a politician says they want to 'Privatize' Social Security that is code for looting it and funneling public funds to private interests. We, the people, and those representatives who stand with us need to call them on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
Doublespeak is language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs, "servicing the target" for bombing[1]), in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace" . In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth. Doublespeak is most closely associated with political language.[2][3]
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Excellent post. That should be the start of a new thread. If you post it as a new thread,
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#52
Righto. If you see "reform", "strengthen", "reinvest in" lock up the silver. "Healthy Poverty" is
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#22
You can BET they're gonna try to "improve" Social Security under Hillary.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jan 2015
#49
I'm on Social Security, and that is one reason that I will not vote for Hillary.
JDPriestly
Jan 2015
#53
senior moment -- what was the term for hiring political supporters, before the civil service act?
unblock
Jan 2015
#10
Yep, Tammany Hall which lasted into the 20th c., with 1930s Fiorello LaGuardia & others. Thought
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#56
patronage was what i was thinking of. piratizing gets around the civil service laws
unblock
Jan 2015
#30
It's also double speak for "zero regulations, accountability, oversight, or ethics."
Initech
Jan 2015
#14