This is only an exercise in the observation of the Proliferation of Intended Confusion. If we had just stayed with the original word/phrase usage, we would not be constantly saying, “What does that mean?”
Today we are is a constant state of unease because our society is obsessed with changing Words and Phrases that we understand to something we don’t understand in order to make us feel better and/or trick us into thinking we feel better...
All examples below came from some legitimate news outlet. I did not make any of these up…
- Tax Increase...
o Revenue Enhancement
- Put the company up For Sale...
o Explore Strategic Alternatives
- Suspect...
o Person of Interest
- Secretary of War...
o Secretary of Defense
- Spending of Federal Funds...
o Investment of Federal Funds
- Tax Cut...
o Eliminate a Revenue Stream
- Commit Crime...
o Exhibit Misbehavior
- Vandalism...
o Interference with Government or Private Property
- Evacuation...
o Order of Departure
- Terror Attack...
o Man Caused Disaster
- A Big Missile that could carry 10-12 Re-Entry Vehicles each Armed with a 300-Kiloton W87 Warhead...
o The Peacekeeper Missile
- Global War on Terror...
o Overseas Contingency Operation
- Lost Job...
o Laid Off
- Fired...
o Laid Off
- Fired...
o Downsized
- Abortion...
o Choice
- Terror Attack at Ft. Hood...
o Workplace Violence
- Quotas…
o Diversity Metrics
- Congressional Vacation...
o Recess
- Congressional Vacation...
o Home District Work Period
- Coup d'état...
o Change of Government
- Coup d'état...
o Intervention
- Illegal Alien...
o Undocumented Alien
- Illegal Alien...
o Undocumented Worker
- Illegal Alien...
o Undocumented American
- Illegal Alien...
o Undocumented Citizen
- Employee...
o Associate
- Retreat...
o Retrograde Movement
- Lying...
o Giving False Information
- Secretary...
o Administrative Assistant
- Armed Policeman in Our Schools...
o School Resource Officer
- Gun Control...
o Gun Reform
- Global Warming...
o Climate Changes
- Obamacare Penalties...
o Affordable Care Act Shared Responsibility Payments
- Burns...
- Thermal Injuries
- A Sexual Affair...
o An Encounter
- Government Printing Money...
o Quantitative Easing
>As the person responsible for the well being of this corporation, I had made a decision to explore a strategic alternative. Our survival has been put into question by the government’s latest revenue enhancement which was forced upon all of us by our government’s continued investment of our tax revenue in questionable ventures.
>I have also had a hard time concentrating on business because of my encounter with my administrative assistant and the choice she made.
>I can’t help but feel if I had set higher diversity metrics we would not be in the situation we find ourselves in at this time but our shared responsibility payment is too much to overcome.
>I have ordered in a peacekeeper for 2pm today, and since I have canceled my previously issued order of departure, please remain at your desks while the peacekeeper makes all our troubles go away.
I have held off publishing this Foolishness for quite some time and the List has continued to grow. I began to think, if I kept waiting, I might never get this one posted. That’s because this kind of obfuscation is a modern mushrooming phenomena and it will never stop.
If you come across items that could be added to the list above, send me an email or put a comment to this posting (Anonymous is OK & Easy). I have the ability to go back into any published blog and revise it. (Just like Congress I have the power to Revise & Extend my Foolishness.)
If y’all keep adding to the list, this may become known in literary circles as the Foolishness...Or Is It Without End... Amen.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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