the following is presented as a public service to help everyone understand the Trenton Republican  doublespeak.

A Christie Dictionary

by: deciminyan

Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 05:36:55 PM EDT

Promoted by Jason Springer: Something tells me we could do a whole "Christiespeak" series where we look at what he says and what it really means.

Sarah Palin's recent attempt to coin new words for the English language such as "refudiate" is humorous, but easy for the reader to discern her actual meaning.  Governor Christie is more subtle, and his bastardization of the English language is a bit more difficult to follow.  As a service to Blue Jersey readers, I have started a Chris Christie Dictionary.  This can be useful to  understand the governor's pronouncements.   Feel free to add more definitions in the comments to this post.

Tax. An evil method by which the government steals money from people for no apparent reason.

User fee. A way to tax people without calling it a tax.

Shared Sacrifice: A philosophy whereby taxes increase for lower income citizens so that millionaires can share in the benefits of that revenue.

Government ethics: see: Reform Jersey Now

Union: A group of workers whose sole goal is to rip off taxpayers.

Teacher: An individual worker whose sole goal is to rip off taxpayers.

Superintendent: see: Teacher

Privatization: The process of taking jobs from state workers and giving them to cronies at a higher cost to the taxpayer.

Reform Jersey Now:  Unknown - never heard of this term.

Charter School: A method to circumvent that pesky "separation of church and state" thingy.