'When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.'

Just Let The Economy Recover

By Thomas Sowell

Investor's Business Daily

May 3, 2011

When people in Washington start creating fancy new phrases, instead of using plain English, you know they are doing something they don't want us to understand.

It was an act of war when we started bombing Libya. But the administration chose to call it "kinetic military action." When the Federal Reserve System started creating hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, they called it "quantitative easing" of the money supply.

When that didn't work, they created more money and called it "quantitative easing 2," or QE2, instead of saying:

"We are going to print more dollars — and hope it works this time."

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