"Ag" Might Stand for "Aggravation"
Wonderful new tidbit in the USDA Food Plan Guide for 2004.
Note that the top spending bracket is referred to as "liberal."
I'm not trying to instigate some sort of Congressional investigation, now, but wouldn't it seem to be common sense to remove words used for political labeling from government reports? Things like this are the reason liberal Democrats distrust the "bipartisan" efforts of the Administration. They'll bring you to the table, then serve you bullshit, call it steak, and ignore your complaints.(2)
But more to the point, the meaning of the word "liberal" is undergoing a change for the worse. We saw during the campaign that the Republican party has been able to browbeat their own interpretation of "liberal" into the party base, with Guliani, Schwarzenegger (3), and Cheney all using it to protray the Democrats as weak, elitist, and evil. This connotation is a long way from the days of the Depression-era meaning of the word. But even the Democratic leadership is swallowing this cock-bluster and trying to back off from the word, rather than fighting this portrayal.
"Does it make your blood boil? Well, I should say...."
For the record, given the weakness of the Dollar, although I would fall in the Thrifty ("Republican") - Low-cost end of the plans, I'm currently blowing out the top end of Moderate-cost. Trade policy does affect even the smallest among us, Mr. President.
---------Endnotes--------
1. File in PDF form. You'll need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free.
2. OK, so Tom Daschle was somewhat responsible for that, seeing as how he had no balls, but still....
3. I hate that he's now a "politician." It makes life almost unbearable. He's been described as a "condom stuffed with walnuts," yet he's a governor....
Note that the top spending bracket is referred to as "liberal."
I'm not trying to instigate some sort of Congressional investigation, now, but wouldn't it seem to be common sense to remove words used for political labeling from government reports? Things like this are the reason liberal Democrats distrust the "bipartisan" efforts of the Administration. They'll bring you to the table, then serve you bullshit, call it steak, and ignore your complaints.(2)
But more to the point, the meaning of the word "liberal" is undergoing a change for the worse. We saw during the campaign that the Republican party has been able to browbeat their own interpretation of "liberal" into the party base, with Guliani, Schwarzenegger (3), and Cheney all using it to protray the Democrats as weak, elitist, and evil. This connotation is a long way from the days of the Depression-era meaning of the word. But even the Democratic leadership is swallowing this cock-bluster and trying to back off from the word, rather than fighting this portrayal.
"Does it make your blood boil? Well, I should say...."
For the record, given the weakness of the Dollar, although I would fall in the Thrifty ("Republican") - Low-cost end of the plans, I'm currently blowing out the top end of Moderate-cost. Trade policy does affect even the smallest among us, Mr. President.
---------Endnotes--------
1. File in PDF form. You'll need Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free.
2. OK, so Tom Daschle was somewhat responsible for that, seeing as how he had no balls, but still....
3. I hate that he's now a "politician." It makes life almost unbearable. He's been described as a "condom stuffed with walnuts," yet he's a governor....
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