Showing posts with label defalcate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label defalcate. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

WORDS THAT ADD A PICTURE TO THE MEANING

We all know the word to defecate, though one might wonder at my using it in the first sentence of this blog.  Our government is full of those who would take from others with no conscience about what happens to others.  A word for that action is defalcate. an intransitive verb meaning to misuse funds; to embezzle.  Metaphorically, those who practice this deception are defecating on the rest of us.

The rhetorically virtuous TeaPartiers, in spirit, with their obsession and commitment to allow their financial backers to keep corporate loopholes and pay fewer personal taxes than the middle class, are showing their contempt for the average citizen.  Hopefully, a time will come when the average citizen (by their vote) will be able to repay the contempt.

Those who write the urban dictionary are far more colorful than most school dictionaries would allow.  Thus, the expression they would use for this behavior might be this.  Why then, has this country been so placid about the Republican behaviors of obstruction and determination to get their way rather than think about the good of all the citizens they are presumably representing?  Even Standard &Poor's has noted the political stalemate and reflects it with their downgrade.  TeaPartiers, as far as I can see, what you are doing is slightly short of treason.  NPR reads the downgrade as a warning to end partisan politics as usual.