The Americans for Tax Reform has provided a decoding ring for translating from Obama-speak to plain English:
- “Investment” – Spending taxpayer money on Obama re-election constituencies such as government employee unions, teachers’ guilds, and big-city political machines.
- “Children and grandchildren” – The people picking up the tab.
- “Energy” – Something that flows from good intentions, government programs, “stimulus” spending but not pipelines.
- “Exports” – That trade – and only that trade – acceptable to union bosses.
- “I” or “Me” – Center of the known universe.
- “Compromise” – Tax hikes.
- “Sacrifice” – Tax hikes.
- “Bipartisan” – Tax hikes.
- “Fair” OR “Fair Share” – Tax hikes.
- “Balanced” – Tax hikes.
- “Small business” – Those who will pay the most under my plan to tax “the rich.”
- “Special interests” – Taxpayers who do not wish to give their money to my friends.
- “There are those who…” OR “Some” – [INSERT STRAW MAN HERE]
- “Middle class” – Those who are the target of seven tax hikes in Obamacare.
- “Deficit” – What Democrats want you to focus on when what they really want to sell you is a tax hike.
- “Regulations” – The governmental leash attached to the choke collar around the neck of the economy.
- “Recovery” – This time it’s real, I swear, not like that “Recovery Summer” we had in 2010 after spending $1 trillion of borrowed money.
- “Infrastructure” OR “Roads and Bridges” – Spending taxpayer money on those states voting Democrat in ’08.
- “Affordable” – Reality for the taxpayer only after they’ve worked 224 days to pay for the total cost of government.
- “Obstructionists” – House Republican lawmakers who have actually passed a budget – NOT the Senate Democrats who have refused to pass a budget for 1,000 days.
- “Streamline” – The pretense of dieting after an all-out spending binge.
- “Wall Street” – 1. Where your IRA and 401(k) live. 2. A bauble to distract you from noticing my bailout of Fannie and Freddie.
- “Jobs” – “You want to find work on the Keystone XL pipeline? Tough luck – I’ve got a campaign to run.”
- “Profit” – Money without which jobs would never be created.
Very useful, right?
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P.S. Americans for Tax Reform also hit on the idea of Obama Bingo … great minds running in the same track … I didn’t jack the idea from them … I jacked it from students who told me that they sometimes play Prof Bingo in class.
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