The Corruption of Language (9)

Last month, at a press conference, President Obama made a big announcement: he had ordered his Cabinet Secretaries to find $100 million dollars in spending reductions.

At the time of the announcement, your correspondent was unable to find suitable words to describe that paltry sum compared to a total budget of some $3.7 TRILLION dollars and a projected deficit of about $1.3 TRILLION dollars. This short video, however, makes the point clearly, understandably and concisely: http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/.

President Obama claims Abraham Lincoln as one of his heroes. Perhaps he, and every member of his staff, would be well advised to spend some time, every day, thinking about President Lincoln's views on "spin":

"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

All Mr. Obama has done with his posturing is to cast doubt on his seriousness while, simultaneously, causing an increase in the speed at which George Orwell is spinning in his grave.