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The need to translate political speak into real meaning is necessary around the world. Politicians do not tell the truth. Often they outright lie. Mostly they obfuscate and deliberately mislead.
I am not a fan of Newt Gingrich, but his answer regarding the Palestinians provides a recent example. His characterization was accurate and straightforward. It was not politically correct in the views of whoever represents the self-annointed Board that makes such determinations. As a result, it raised a bit of a firestorm. He was criticized by the media and by his Republican competitors. The latter were interested because if afforded them what they perceived as a political advantage.
Why is telling the truth wrong? Why do we let our politicians consistently get away with either outright lies or deliberate political gobblydegook designed to mislead? In the piece below, Jeff Harding performs a service by translating “politeze” (doublespeak) into its real meaning. Someone should put up a website that does this for every political utterance. It would be a meaningful public service.
How To Raise Taxes and Create Prosperity
By Jeff Harding December 12th, 2011
I am constantly reminded how useless are official and semi-official committees, subcommittees, boards, associations, organizations, bureaus, brotherhoods, conferences, dialogues, and congresses. The word bloviate comes to mind. Today that reminder came in the form of a report from the OECD on tax policy and inequality.
The “International Tax Dialogue (ITD) 4th Global Conference on Tax and Inequality” was held in New Delhi, India on December 7 to 9. Perhaps you could have guessed that their conclusion was inherent in their name: that is correct, tax policy can promote equality. Such conclusions are, to be generous, facile.
In our desire to provide transparency and shine the light of reason on such organizations, I will translate the essence of their report so that it is understandable to most readers.
Original text:
In his closing remarks, Rintaro Tamaki, Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, said “As I travel around the world, a question that I get repeatedly asked is how can we deal with inequalities? What will be the impact of the crisis? How do we reconcile the fact that the behavior of banks was one of the major causes of crisis yet despite public bailouts, we see them continue to pay millions of dollars in bonuses? How can we show our citizens that the gains and the benefits of globalization are being fairly shared?”
Translation: … Continue reading How To Raise Taxes and Create Prosperity
