http://www.writersownwords.com/ Websites for Writers en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:19:20 EST larry@writersownwords.com (Larry Truett) http://www.writersownwords.com/lacueva/blog/309/ Language means plenty in politics, as Ihave covered this topic in a couple = previous posts. The most conspicuous absence is the term exploitation when = talking about how the real wages of USworkers has declined over the past fo= ur decades. MainStreet.org... b309 http://www.writersownwords.com/lacueva/blog/308/ I'm playing wordsmith today. Jackaling.It is making money from the governme= nt off other people's misery and misfortune,identical to war profiteering e= xcept it is done for disasters. Look at what happened after Hurricane Katri= na. 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