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The Meaning of "Austerity"
The Corbett Report ^ | 6.22.2010 | James Corbett

Posted on 06/25/2010 1:11:07 PM PDT by wolfcreek

It's an old trick to couch a painful reality inside of a flowery platitude. We hear it all the time in our daily lives, and for the most part we know how to read between the lines when someone tries to do it to us.

When your doctor tells you that "This will only hurt a bit," you know enough to brace yourself for a painful procedure. When your boss tells you he has an exciting new project for you to work on, you know you're about to get saddled with the job that no one else wants to do. When a salesman tells you a used car is a fixer-upper, you know you're looking at a lemon.

Similarly, when the IMF tells a nation that they need to implement "austerity" in order to get themselves out of a financial crisis, here, too, lies a gaping chasm between the language and the reality.

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When will *austerity* come to America, again.
1 posted on 06/25/2010 1:11:08 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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To: FromLori; Quix; TaraP

Globalist ping.


2 posted on 06/25/2010 1:12:09 PM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

Yikes!

Thanks Quix!


3 posted on 06/25/2010 2:00:28 PM PDT by TaraP (He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
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To: TaraP; wolfcreek

INDEED.

TaraP, you may ping the list at whatever level if you think it fitting.


4 posted on 06/25/2010 3:35:16 PM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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