Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought. In a recession such we are having, companies cut budgets and workers get fired. Well, heres how a company like Chrysler doublespeaks. While throwing 5,000 people out of work, it initiates what it calls a career alternative enhancement program. Doublespeak has been used for years by government to pull the wool over voters eyes.
Taxes are revenue enhancements or user fees.
There are people who understand that words mean power and money. This may no longer be 1984, but George Orwell would have been proud of his prediction. An Oxymoron Catholic priests make promises or vows of obedience and celibacy at the time of ordination. Obedience means that they must follow what their local bishop asks them to do and think. Long ago St. Ignatius of Antioch said, Priests are called to be an extension of the bishops thinking and when a priest makes a promise of obedience he embraces this belief.