Government-to-English Dictionary
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!
Please include the word or expression, the context and the definition if it is known!
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equals "No child allowed to get ahead"
Definition: We don't know, you won't know and nobody ever will know so just pass the f...ker.
I'm going to tax the hell out of the rich and give to the poor
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.
-all children left behind on purpose
DEFINITION: zero accountability
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
DEFINITION: I hate anybody who works hard and is successful and I'm going to screw them over any way I can.
Definition: Nobody matters but me. The rest of you are only here to serve me.
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.)
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?