Back in November I rambled on about a phrase I really hate: ‘Grow’ whatever.
Well, I happened to be reading an article online this afternoon which was an overview of Governor Pawlenty’s State of the State speech yesterday. And in said article was once again, quite perversely, the quirky phrase ‘grow jobs.’
I won’t bore about the details of my distaste for that phrase (read the November post for that), but I finally figured it out. I now know why they can’t/don’t say ‘create jobs’ instead of the all-too-popular ‘grow jobs.’ And it’s really quite simple.
Creationism vs Evolutionism.
You see, the creationists would prefer to say ‘create jobs,’ while the evolutionists would rather say ‘grow jobs.’ It’s really, really that simple. And due to the separation of church and state (unless you’re living in Kansas**), it is very much uncouth, arguably politically incorrect to take the creationist stand.
Here endeth the dripping sarcasm.
–MZ
**There’s an interesting episode of ‘Family Guy’ (one of my more favorite social commentary programs) in which the evolution versus creation argument is played out with a large stab at the state of Kansas where Jeannie (‘I Dream Of Jeannie’) magically winks everything into being.