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To: Uncle Sham

Except a word is just a reference to what it is, not the thing itself

Just because you relabel something doesn’t make it a different thing.

Nice try though, wish it was that simple.

What you need to do is modify something about a Doctor that no longer makes them a Doctor but a Woctor, etc..

Here is the definition:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/doctor


4 posted on 12/23/2009 6:00:15 PM PST by dila813
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To: dila813

The left wing uses relabeling all the time.
social justice= socialism.
Economic justice = socialism.
choice and competition = government chooses your choice=socialism.
fair compensation=socialism
green jobs = phantom promises

and so on. seems to work for them so far so why not try occupational relabeling

After all, a prostitute is a performing artist.

And I could become a recycled immigrant instead of a natural born citizen.


12 posted on 12/23/2009 6:11:06 PM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: dila813
Just because you relabel something doesn’t make it a different thing.

Remember when Nixon imposed wage/price controls? And what happened in the meat industry?

Retailers couldn't sell meat for a profit so they renamed the cuts and were able to set the price on these "new" cuts. As I recall that's how "California roast" came to be. Government had fixed the price of a boneless chuck roast so instead, there were no more boneless chuck roasts. Just the new California roast.

I'll grant you we can't pull that here, but it is a good illustration of how supply/demand in the real world gets around idiot utopian government edicts.

17 posted on 12/23/2009 6:25:39 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: dila813

Gay=Gay?
Black=black?
Boy=boy?
Hoe=Hoe?

Sure we can relable...with whole new meanings. The left does it all the time to mean things are racist etc.

They=they?


38 posted on 12/23/2009 7:15:43 PM PST by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: dila813

Actually, any terms like doctor will be defined in the text of the bill. You can relabel it as a woctor if you want to try and sway people’s opinions, but they will still fit the definition of doctor as given by the bill, and hence still fall under the same restrictions and requirements.

All of those liberal relabelings had nothing to do with anything in a legal sense. social justice, green jobs, etc (list the other guys mentioned) had nothing to do with the actual legislation, but were only attempts to get the public on their side and supporting these ideals. since these terms don’t sound as ‘bad’ people are more likely to support the legislation (or at least not actively go against it) so they can then get it passed and into law. Once its signed into law, thats a whole ‘nother story


41 posted on 12/23/2009 8:30:23 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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