Liberals have an amazing way of twisting the language to make one thing seem like another. What's more, they seem to be good at it, as a sizable chunk of the populace embraces the words.
Consider the word "invest". Whenever you hear a liberal use the word, it means "taxes". Examples are "investing in renewable energy" or "investing in high speed rail". They're not going to be venture capitalists and get in on the ground floor of a green energy company or a high speed rail company. They're going to try to get you, me and everyone else to subsidize these endeavors with tax dollars, whether we like the endeavors or not.
The above is why it's so entertaining to watch the liberal scapegoating on gas and oil prices. Obama is trying to deflect blame for rising gas and oil prices by blaming "speculators". The word "speculator" sounds much more sinister than "investor", even though they're basically the same thing. Commodities traders invest in futures contracts just as stock traders invest in stocks.
So, we have good investors and bad investors. The good investors are those who "invest" your money in something you may not want, that probably won't work, and which may--as the history of government has demonstrated--make things even worse.
The bad investors invest their own money, lose it if they're wrong, or make more if they're right. But you're not paying for their activities.
That's about as Orwellian as it gets. Apparently all of the liberals got the fax, because if I listen to talk radio for even five minutes, a liberal is calling in to berate "speculators" who are getting rich at the expense of the public, and who are living better than the rest of us. I suspect it's that "living better than the rest of us" that really galls them, certainly more than the price of gas. Liberals have always wanted gas to be expensive.
It's fascinating to listen to them go on and on about the rich people who didn't work for their money. Who are these people who somehow just managed to get rich by accident? Is that what it is and, if so, why can't the rest of us just get rich quick with no work? If rich people got where they are through no effort, then it should be effortless to get rich, right?
Sorry, but my head is spinning. I have to stop and take a dramamine.