THE PROFANITY OF CASINO CAPITALISM

Progressive Review - While we're cleaning up the mess that banks, hedge funds, MBAs and assorted corporations have made of our country, it would be worthwhile to clean up their language as well. Words open a window on our souls and if we keep using the airport bookstore argot foisted on us by the casino capitalist class, we will easily drift back into their evil ways. For starters here are a few of the words that should now be considered the political and economic equivalent of blasphemy and profanity:

Marketplace
Out of the box
Proactive
Leverage
Mandate
Entrepreneur
Robust
Transformation
Collaborative
Benchmark
Strategic partner
Price point
Policies and procedures
Partner with us
Prioritize
Strategic planning
Bring to the table
Resolve the issue
Business model, models
Teamwork, team building, or team player
Best practices
Free market
Synergy
Due diligence
Win win
Skill set
World class
Cutting edge
Support services
Mission statement
Reinvented
Visioning
Manage up
Monitoring the situation
On the same page
On message
We're number one
Ownership society