[Mb-civic] Hear 'Reform,' Think 'Destroy'

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Hear 'Reform,' Think 'Destroy' 
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Bush warps the language in his effort to kill Social Security.

By Susan Jacoby
Susan Jacoby is the author of "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism" (Metropolitan Books, 2004) and director of the Center for Inquiry-Metro New York.

January 21 2005

In a 1946 essay titled "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell observed that all political language is designed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." 

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