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To: T.L.Sink
It's bad enough that American taxpayers have to bail out the privately owned, tax-exempt Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Do they not believe in proof-reading or something?

9 posted on 08/31/2008 11:03:01 AM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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To: eclecticEel

Good question. I think when we’re dealing with them we enter an Orwellian world of double-speak where up is down, black is white, etc. I forget the author’s name but several years ago he wrote a book called “Doublespeak.” It was sort of a parody on how language as used in politics has become almost meaningless. I remember he cited Alan Greenspan as an example. In one example, Greenspan appeared before Congress and spoke at great length. All who heard him were utterly confused - not because of any technical economic jargon - but because Greenspan literally “invented” an unintelligible way of communicating.


12 posted on 08/31/2008 11:49:08 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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