| The Liberal to English Dictionary | "It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." -- Clinton | |
Ever wonder what the Clintons, the Feinsteins, and the Shumers of this world are really saying? Well, thanks to a fellow freedom lover on CompuServe, Wayne Riddle, you can use this ever handy translation dictionary to figure it out!!! I have formatted it for easy reading.
E-Mail me some suggestions to add to the list.
LiberalSpeak |
English |
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| Tax cut | Tax increase | |
| No tax increase | Big tax increase | |
| Tax increase | Look out! | |
| Taxes are last resort | Tax increase will be first item on the agenda | |
| Read my lips | Tax increase | |
| Spending cut | Spending increase | |
| Deficit reduction | Tax increase | |
| Balanced budget | Tax and spend increase | |
| Tax the rich | Tax anyone with a job | |
| Deserving poor | People who vote for liberals | |
| Undeserving poor | People who work | |
| Monopoly | Corporation with market cap over $500 million | |
| Profit | Gross revenue | |
| Corporate welfare | Gross revenue minus taxes | |
| Corporate subsidy | See 'corporate welfare' | |
| Welfare for the rich | What people have left after taxes | |
| Greed | Profit motive | |
| Profiteering | Not losing money | |
| Managed competition | Government takeover | |
| Socially responsible investments | Invest in money-losing ventures that liberals failed to get | |
| Taxpayer funding for Social responsibility | Force someone else to pay for it | |
| Compassion | Generosity with other peoples' money | |
| Open-minded | Agrees with liberal agenda | |
| Closed-minded | Does not agree with liberal agenda | |
| Right wing extremist | See 'closed-minded' | |
| Diversity | Lock step conformity with liberal agenda | |
| Gridlock | System of checks and balances deliberately designed into the Constitution | |
| Compromise | Agree with liberal agenda | |
| Overheated economy | Prosperity | |
| Trust fund | Ponzi investment scam | |
| Special interest groups | Non-liberal groups | |
| Exploit | Employ | |
| Victim | Someone who doesn't work because of sloth | |
| Fully fund | Blank check |
| Here are some special terms directly related to our
beloved President Clinton. We call it "Clintonese". |
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| Clintonese | English | |
| I feel your pain | You are going to feel the pain of tax increases | |
| Moral compass | Check the latest polls to see where I stand | |
| bipartisanship | coerce Republicans into agreeing with Liberal Agenda | |
| end of big government | increase federal spending and regulations | |
| family values | polls indicate I should say this phrase over and over | |
| challenge | give liberals more power | |
| reduce Federal employees | cut the defense budget | |
| responsible cuts | spending increases | |
| hero | government worker actually doing what he's paid to do | |
| government shutdown | close the passport office | |
| village | government | |
| child | you | |
| up | down | |
| down | up | |
| I didn't do it | I did it | |
| I did it | I hired someone else to do it for me | |