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Government-to-English Dictionary

Posted by SaltyDog 10 years, 1 month ago to Government
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Let's put together a list of the obscure, misleading and downright confusing words and expressions used by our government.

Please include the word or expression, the context and the definition if it is known!


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  • Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 1 month ago
    Open Society: All your shit is public on penalty of jail; all our shit is private on penalty of jail.
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  • Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    My apologies...dessert is what you have after a meal...DESERT is the sandy place where they send you to get you killed. This is what happens when I let auto correct take over!
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  • Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago
    What does "NET NEUTRALITY" mean anyway? What's 'neutral' about the body of regulation? Neutral in my world means not leaning in any direction. The truck is in neutral means that the drive gears are disengaged and nothing is going to happen. How does this definition relate to the Internet? Why doesn't anyone in the media ask these morons to define their terms?
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  • Posted by JCLanier 10 years, 1 month ago
    Phrase: "We have to pass the Bill so that you can find out what's in it"
    Definition: We don't know, you won't know and nobody ever will know so just pass the f...ker.
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  • Posted by DanShu 10 years, 1 month ago
    Fairness:
    I'm going to tax the hell out of the rich and give to the poor
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    Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago
    "Incomplete Success"
    President Jimmy Carter

    President Carter ordered an immediate mission to be flown from aircraft carriers to the Iranian dessert to rescue the 52 hostages who were captured when the US Embasy in Teheran was overrun. The helicopters used we're not fitted for dessert work, nor did they have any FLIR gear for night operations. The results were predictable; the loss of all aircraft and infinitely worse, the lives of all of the GIs.

    President Carter, announcing the mission the next day, called it an 'incomplete success". The rest of us viewed it as a gut wrenching, stomach churning, unnecessary, I-think-I'm-gonna-puke unmitigated disaster.

    To this day, Mr Carter still can't fathom why he didn't win re-election.

    Go figure.

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    Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 1 month ago
    PHRASE: Public Servant
    DEFINITION: zero accountability
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 1 month ago
    AFFORDABLE care act
    Net Neutrality-nothing neutral about it
    America Invents Act-america invents "NOT"
    PATRIOT act-that one bit you in the butt
    Social security "trust" fund-no trust, no fund no time left
    Inter-state passports-yea-you were all about nabbing illegals. last laugh on you with your Hitler-era papers across state lines

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    Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 1 month ago
    PHRASE: "I think it's better when you spread the wealth around."
    DEFINITION: I hate anybody who works hard and is successful and I'm going to screw them over any way I can.
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    Posted by Mamaemma 10 years, 1 month ago
    Phrase:"What difference does it make?"
    Definition: Nobody matters but me. The rest of you are only here to serve me.
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    Posted by sdesapio 10 years, 1 month ago
    PHRASE: "The server will remain private."
    DEFINITION: "F**k you. You're not getting any more information."

    PHRASE: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
    DEFINITION: "I did it."

    PHRASE: "You didn't build that."
    DEFINITION: "You didn't build that." (Yep. He meant it.)
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    Posted by 10 years, 1 month ago
    Sequestration.
    According to Merriam-Webster, this is a noun meaning the act of keeping a person or group apart from any other persons or groups.

    The sequestration of a jury is to keep that group apart until a verdict has been reached.

    How in the world does that translate into Governmentspeak meaning, "we're not going to give you any money to pay the bills until you pass the law that we want"? Further, why does that mean that we're not going to cut our pay or bennies, but rather we're going to cut the things that We, The People, need to survive?
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