That’s simply disrespectful. And so here we are.
Again, for the Chinese learner, it’s safe to know that whenever it’s appropriate to use “God knows”, you can say “heaven knows”.
Likewise you can say “Good heavens” instead of “Good God”. Every time.
Oops. Heavens, I think we’ve been talking too much about God. For goodness’ sake, let’s move swiftly on to media examples:
1. The organisers of the original Boston Tea Party objected to paying UK taxes. Their descendants object to paying taxes to the US government as well. Whatever the outcome of the frantic negotiations about the appropriate “ceiling” on the level of US government debt, the background to it has been beyond satire.
The absurdity of it all was well captured by the economist Paul Krugman when he wrote recently that Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives’ budget committee, had “proposed a supposed deficit-reduction plan that included huge tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, then received an award for fiscal responsibility”.
In the short term the US economy, in common with the UK and others, is experiencing a shortfall of demand, so that businesses are operating way below capacity and unemployment is disturbingly high. The last things an economy in such a position needs are tax increases and public spending cuts. It has to be emphasised that measures to reduce deficits, if introduced prematurely, can be irresponsible, for all the talk of fiscal “responsibility”….
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