into the dustbin, where it belongs

[Searcher08]

ALL our options are on the table and
we are not ruling anything IN or OUT

[Canadian_watcher]

austerity

[Jeff]

Recession

(Just say it, already: "Depression.")

[Gouda]

Recession

(Just say it, already: "Depression.")

D...D...D...Double Dip Recession! Oh, I can't say it.

[Nordic]

"Shovel-ready"

[MacCruiskeen]

"pushing the envelope"

[Simulist]

"Horsing around."

[Jeff]

a permit

[Simulist]

"Everyone has to pay their fair share!"

(Code for: if you're middle class or poor you should pay proportionately more than the very rich — 'cause that's your "fair share.")

[Elvis]

"public service'

[Simulist]

"It's politics."

(As if that's an excuse for compromising yourself into assisting the very worst kinds of evil.)

[Jeff]

"hippie"

[justdrew]

more than a kilometer (half a mile) from

this is the AP's idea, 0.6214 is apparently close enough to 0.5

here in the gud ol usa of course metrics are satan's units of measure so it's best to translate them for proper right justified gawd fearing knuckle-draggers

[Allegro]

...here in the gud ol usa of course metrics are satan's units of measure so it's best to translate them for proper right justified gawd fearing knuckle-draggers

[Jeff]

restraint on all sides