“Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.
The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard.” (Washington Post op-ed)
Whether it is a ‘bailout’ or not has become as much as a charged buzzword as whether it was an ‘invasion’ or not, whether it is an ‘amnesty’, or whether we are in favor of ‘choice’. Whichever side of the debate one is on, one should decry the mind-numbing use of buzzwords to replace nuanced discourse.
