January 27, 2009 · 1:18 am
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Who “Officially” Cares?

Good grief, some people are so pretentious.

Update: Oh, I get it now. “Officially” means that you’ve been appointed to be a prattler in the nether cyberegions of the National Post. Check.

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11 Responses to Who “Officially” Cares?

  1. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 6:28 am

    Heh. What a cretin fest over there.

  2. Mike
    January 27, 2009 at 6:57 am

    Bah, let them all implode…the budget won’t fix anything anyway…its all just another episode in the 3 year election campaign we’ve been experiencing.

  3. Aeneas the Younger
    January 27, 2009 at 7:13 am

    What a bunch of simpletons.

  4. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 7:20 am

    Mike — I suspect that much of the “stimulus” will be more show than substance. For example, the $7 billion of infrastructure money that’s just a re-announcement of funds that have been stuck in the pipeline for ages. Expect some of it to be defense spending that likewise will be recycled programs that the Cons haven’t been able to get off the ground over the last couple of years.

    Considering that the PBO estimated an anticipated deficit of of almost $14 billion before the “stimulus” that only leaves $20 billion of “new” spending… Should be interesting to see what that’s made up of.

  5. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 7:34 am

    I just know I won’t be able to bear too many more examples of the expression “shovel ready.”

  6. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 7:46 am

    It’s a good expression, but has already been used to death.

  7. sharonapple88
    January 27, 2009 at 8:02 am

    Considering that the PBO estimated an anticipated deficit of of almost $14 billion before the “stimulus” that only leaves $20 billion of “new” spending… Should be interesting to see what that’s made up of.

    Most of it will probably be tax cuts.

  8. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 8:20 am

    It’s a good expression, but has already been used to death.

    I don’t like neologisms like this because it assumes a priori knowledge and present barriers to communication. Anyone who’s listening to a report and hearing that expression for the first time (without any further explanation, which is a given in the soundbite English media) will lose the plot and tune out, which is what most people are in fact doing.

  9. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Sharon — That’s what I’m thinking. The question then becomes whether they’ll be targeted and temporary, or pervasive and permanent.

  10. Ryan
    January 27, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Doesn’t Canwest realize that its same old strategy of bad journalism and bad writing is NOT the way to avoid going broke?

  11. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Evidently not.

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