Beware of catchy phrases

Big Bureaucracy ^ | September 7th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[Big Bureaucracy]

During election years politicians and strategists like to come up with catchy phrases that repeated often inspire the votes. Most of them are like Rorschach inkblots – they can mean anything you want to see in them. Unfortunately what voters believe those words mean is not always what politicians actually meant when campaigning.

Below is a glossary of some popular election year phrases:

Health care for everybody – buy health insurance or pay penalty at the IRS;

Stimulus Package – free condoms for studying the behavior of drunken college kids and other useful projects for $800, 000, 000, 000;

Sustainable Medicare and Medicaid – cut $ 500 billion from the programs and tax $ 500 billion for the programs.

Hope – throw your coins and donations of $5 or more in my wishing well;

Expect miracles – flock of geese fly-over or double rainbow;

Tax-cut for the working class – tax-rebate even if you did not pay taxes;

Tax-cut for the wealthy – at some point you’ve made enough money; the point is determined by the President;

Personal responsibility – you are on your own;

Change – fundamental transformation;

Charity – help each other because the government spent the money on screwing eco-friendly light bulbs;

Tea Party – not a party, not about tea;

Kill the Bill – violence free attempt to repeal the ObamaCare;

Dead Line – date on which the Taliban hope to reclaim Afghanistan;

Energy Independence – ‘cap-and-tax, baby, cap-and-tax’ or ‘drill, baby, drill’;

Border Security – warning signs that keep Arizonians safely away from American lands occupied by foreign drug-mafia;

BP Oil Spill – the biggest environmental disaster in American history that miraculously disappeared;

Midterm Elections – energize the base by class warfare, race-baiting, religion-baiting, gender-baiting, bigotry, name-calling, smearing, twitting, facebooking, myspacing and campaign money-bombing.

To all of you who participate in the election circus mud fight: good luck!

[screaminsunshine]

‘Yes We Can’. I wonder if anyone remembers this chant. It started a long time ago as the chant of the ‘Communist Workers Party’. Gee I wonder if Obama is a Communist??

[jakerobins]

Racism or Bigotry..... To be in disagreement with the President or the Democrat Party...

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Beware of catchy phrases

Hey, that's kind of catchy. Therefore, I will mistrust it.

[Big Bureaucracy]

LOL - good one!

[Big Bureaucracy]

To be in disagreement with the President or the Democrat Party: expect every possible insult none of them related to the actual policy.