Waste. Fat. Gravy.
It goes by many different names. All of them mean the same thing: government spending on social programs. Government spending for such purposes has become so odious as we lurch through the reconstruction of neoliberalism after the Great Recession of 2008-09, that it has gained euphemisms. The end game is apparently the reduction of government spending through found efficiencies so plain and obvious that opposition politicians pose themselves as aghast that such bloat has not been curbed.
In this post I take up the following issue:
• The use of euphemisms when discussing the cutting of government spending. This, I argue, serves to obscure the use of the state as a method of achieving and maintaining political, economic and biological power through absurdly reductive reasoning.
On Euphemisms
Euphemisms are tools for attempting to broadcast an awkward or embarrassing thought without being explicit. Children are often taught euphemisms for certain…
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