ENTREPRENEUR. Newspeak for “sucker.” Entrepreneurs are Americans who risk all of their assets and devote their entire lives working incredible hours bringing to fruition new ideas for products and services that often add thousand of jobs and provide enormous treasure to our economy. They are the backbone of the American economic engine. But they are regarded by the Left as a bottomless well of money that can be used for endless government schemes. Entrepreneurs are lumped in with the barons of Wall Street, the “rich” the “special interests” and demonized by members of Congress, few of whom ever created a job, risked all their treasure to build a business, or had to make payroll, for our economic problems. The government takes an ever-increasing amount of their earnings and taxes their estates at about forty-five percent when they die.
EXECUTIVE ORDER. The means by which President Obama bought the votes from the doubtful anti-abortion Democrats in order to pass his healthcare bill. He promised to issue an executive order to ban use of federal funds for abortions. Executive orders are easily ignored or reversed by the president. Witness his executive order to close Guantanamo within one year. Sixteen months into his administration, Guantanamo is still open for business.
EQUALITY. This is Newspeak for equality of outcome rather than the equality of opportunity that has made America great. It is the equality of outcome, so treasured by the Left, which has led to affirmative action, excusing the economic bottom half of our citizenry from paying any income taxes, and the twin diseases of political correctness and diversity.
EXTRAPOLATIONS. Familiar form of arguments put forward by the Left as “proof.” An example of the bankruptcy of this type of reasoning is that, say, we got four inches of snow yesterday and six inches of snow today. The extrapolation is that the snowfall will increase by fifty percent daily, ad infinitum. In a month, according to this reasoning, daily snowfall would reach into the millions of inches. Extrapolations are very often used by the Left, for everything from government expenditures to “statistics” about their pet programs.
FACTS. Almost any data the Left proposes to support their positions. “Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence . . .” John Adams. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of saying that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts.”
Contrast this with “Blackwhite.” This word, used in Orwell’s 1984, has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought that is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doesn’t this sound familiar?” See also, Two Plus Two Equals Five, below.
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