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Language Redefined in the Age of Obama
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 26, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 06/26/2015 3:24:49 PM PDT by Kaslin

RUSH: Here are just a few of the words that have been given new meaning by Obama and other Democrats just in the last few short years. "Marriage," totally redefined. Taxes. "Taxes" are now "shared responsibility payments." "Gross domestic product" has been redefined under Obama to include "thoughts." There's even a move on to eliminate a statistic reporting gross domestic product.

You may not have heard about this. It's relatively new. But some advanced thinkers on the left in the media think that gross domestic product is not a good indication of economic growth, specifically because the gross domestic product under Obama is a disaster. Because there isn't any economic growth! There is economic contraction or stagnation. So the arbiters of what people are to know, want to get rid of the whole notion of reporting GDP because it "just doesn't tell the whole story."

The fact of the matter is, it does tell the whole story and that's why they want to get rid of it. The GDP documents the economic failures that are the Obama administration, that are Democrat Party economic policies -- failures which have given us 93 million Americans no longer even in the workforce! Millennial college graduates reduced to 29 hours a week with $200,000 college debt. There is no economic growth!

We're flooding the market with low-skilled, uneducated people who don't even speak English in most cases. There is not a single recipe for economic growth taking place and the GDP reflects that, and so they want to get rid of reporting the GDP. "Full-time job" has been redefined to 30 hours a week. "Employed" has taken on a new meaning. You aren't counted as unemployed after a certain number of weeks, because if we did count you, the unemployment rate would be even worse than it is.

"Recession" is no longer two successive negative quarters of GDP, because we can't have a recession reported under Obama. There isn't to be any bad economic news. So we redefine "recession" by not even reporting it. "Recovery," economic recovery has been redefined. There hasn't been an economic recovery since Obama took office. We have been stagnating. We have been in an economic malaise. We've been in the second term of Jimmy Carter.

There are no advances in wages. There are no advances in disposable income. The haves are getting bigger; the have-nots are getting bigger. With all this push for equality and fairness by the Democrats, the country is becoming more divided, more segregated in every which way you care to count -- financially, racially, sexual orientation, traditional values versus new, whatever. There is no unity and there is no equality.

But those are terms that are being redefined along the way to create the impression that all is well, when it isn't. There are a host of other words and phrases that no longer mean what they meant. There are a host of words and phrases that now -- on their own and by themselves -- have become racist, have become sexist, have become bigoted and have become homophobic.


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1 posted on 06/26/2015 3:24:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

bttt


2 posted on 06/26/2015 3:29:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

bump


3 posted on 06/26/2015 3:32:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Kaslin
>>> Millennial college graduates reduced to 29 hours a week with $200,000 college debt.

Not is not the worst, the worst is "Millennial college graduates reduced to 29 hours a week with $200,000 college debt, with a useless degree."

4 posted on 06/26/2015 3:35:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Correction:

That is not the worst, the worst is “Millennial college graduates reduced to 29 hours a week with $200,000 college debt, with a useless degree. And an attitude that the rest of us all owe them their dream jobs.”


5 posted on 06/26/2015 3:37:52 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Kaslin

George Orwell saw it all coming.

Now it’s here.


6 posted on 06/26/2015 3:41:48 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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They must be liking it because they re-elected Obama for another term. Middle America would probably vote for Obama again if he could run a 3rd term; un-f*cking real...


7 posted on 06/26/2015 3:45:48 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Kaslin

When reason, logic, and critical thinking aren’t on your side, attack the language.


8 posted on 06/26/2015 3:45:56 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Kaslin

Who did this? The American people voted twice for this fool.


9 posted on 06/26/2015 5:46:03 PM PDT by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: Kaslin

People who’ve spent too much time in intellectual pursuits have come to believe that words are reality - want to be black - just say you are - want to believe we’re winning against ISIS - just say we are - want to think marriage is for whoever wants to be considered married - just say it’s so - want to believe in the oxymoron children of a gay couple - just say it - I worked for twenty-five years in a hospital full of people who lived in such pseudo-reality - they had to be in a hospital because they couldn’t function in the real world - eventually this unreal world too will fail.....


10 posted on 06/26/2015 6:37:38 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ChiMark
No the American People did not vote for that arrogant pos. The ignorant did. It is unfair of you to call the American people ignorant.

I will never forgive those on our side who stayed home during the general election in 2008 and especially in 2012 because they didn't like the nominee

11 posted on 06/27/2015 11:11:10 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Sir Napsalot; Kaslin

The head of the Occupy Wall Street movement was angry because no one would hire him even though he had a Masters..... in...

In...

Wait for it...

“Nonverbal communications skills among indigenous peoples in the pursuit of subterranean water resources.”


12 posted on 06/29/2015 3:00:51 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East (90% of MSM is lies, except the National Enquirer, of course :))
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To: ChiMark

Yeah but those on our side who stayed home because they didn’t like the nominees in the 2008 and especially the 2012 elections are also to blame. I will never forgive them as long as I live.


13 posted on 06/29/2015 3:15:07 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
What makes you so sure that the election results represent an actual canvass of ballots cast in those elections?

I think after the "acccident" of Reagan, steps were taken to make sure he never happened again.

14 posted on 06/29/2015 3:54:30 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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