[GatekeeperBookman]

1984.

Newspeak.

The perverted thought ( of the Left ) runs through every compartment of society, like a computor virus or worm.

Downscaling is a bogus term for real decline. Even Wall Street pays for bogus research which only obfuscates & distracts.

Every gov entity, fed, state & local has gone mad with expenditures of infalted paper money. The tax load built into every product & service is beyond calculation.
Goods & services must pay the load of every tax imposed on their suppliers, all employees in the chain of supply & all personal & property taxes of every entity which touches the product or service. The consumer uses inflated, tax reduced dollars to pay further taxes on the product/service when he buys it.

The reaction of the wealthy & the middle clases ( there are several levels ) is 'downscaling'! What a nice term.

[sarcasm]

Of course there are those around here who will say that "downscaling" is a benign development - perhaps they could start a new political movement: Conservatives for a Declining Standard of Living.