Budgetspeak

posted Jan 23, 2008
Days of Our Legislature

The governor released his budget proposal today and the conversation around this kind of stuff tends to be a little, um, dense. Thankfully, Susan Arbetter has a "Budget to English" guide. Here's a clip:

"We will be cutting expected growth in health care spending"

ACTUALLY MEANS

"healthcare spending will increase, I just wanted to use the most circuitous way of saying it to confuse people who are only sort of paying attention".

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