I noticed during the 6 o'clock news where the Department of Agriculture spent untold resources to find another term for the word "hunger" since it was stated in their latest report that "only" 38 million people now experience this disappearing condition. Lest we dredge up uncomfortable thoughts and feelings that normally go along with the term, "hunger"; low food security was chosen to officially describe this unpleasant condition which, by the way, no longer exists in America. Since our law makers did such an efficient job of eradicating our land of what used to be such a grim condition, why stop there? Here are a few ideas of redefining existing conditions that could also remove them from our fair land:
Poverty could be eliminated by simply referring to it as "fiscal deficiency".
Sickness would no longer be such a drain on our lives by considering it to be "bodily function anomaly".
No longer would our city's be filled with the homeless if we simply agreed that they were subjects to "shelter absence".
Although baldness is small next to some those items already mentioned, it too would no longer be a problem to millions when we understand it to be nothing less than "unresponsive hair follicle syndrome ".
Who would not be forever thankful that war would be no more when understood as "unresolved exacerbated anger".
And finally insanity would be better understood when referred to by "politician".
Phynerk
