Blunted by Hyperbole

On fake hate crimes, protesting artists and the honest use of words:

One would not say of a man who passed from smoking sixty cigarettes a day to fifty that he had given up smoking, or that he had exercised great self-denial. And one would not, or rather should not, say of an organisation that had balanced its budget once in fifty years (the British government) that it was practicing austerity merely because it had to borrow a slightly lower percentage of what it spent than it did the year before. This is to deprive words of their meaning… If reducing the rate at which you overspend and accumulate debt is called austerity, no one will dare go any further in that direction, though it were the right direction in which to go.

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5 Replies to “Blunted by Hyperbole”

  1. But this corruption of words it isn’t accepted by only these farts and turds, is it? A majority of urban voters in most of Canada’s major cities obviously accept the nonsense that when the provinces borrow money, it is called “investing”.
    And, just as too much “austerity” is a bad thing, surely more “investing” is a good thing. Lewis Carroll wrote about it.

  2. We need strong leadership to start building a proper database of Liberal supporters. Then hopefully with the right government we can deport all the Muslims and Liberals from the west to Quebec.
    A multibillion hybrid “fence”, aka North Korean battlements with an Israeli style wall– and we’ll be good to go!
    It’ll pay for itself within months.

  3. I had a friend (yes, past tense) who lived the life of a grasshopper for about 35 years (from 30 to 65)because she was in the “arts”. I worked like the proverbial ant,living within my means, all that “conservative” stuff. I am now mortgage free, with a tidy little nest egg. She lives in a tiny basement apartment,on a small pension (she did not work much, so did not contribute much to CPP). I stopped talking with her about 7 years ago, as all she ever did was complain how evil Stephen Harper was, and how she deserved a better pension because she had been in the “arts”. Your life choices DO have consequences.

  4. I too had a great many friends in the Arts. Same story. They party, sleep in, work sporadically, and continually change “life partners”. Eventually, they all come to the same sort of conclusion. The reason they are poor, living in squalor, are unemployable, and diseased is because of Harper.

  5. The Alberta government practices austerity, balances their budget, and goes $ 4 billion further in debt. They do sound like geniuses. Nope. They are liars. Finance minister, the well known retard, Doug Horner, invented his own method of accounting unlike any other government in the world. Pissing money away is what is now known as investment not expenditure.

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