I was listening to the news on the radio this morning and heard this excerpt from Gov. Jay Nixon's first State of the State speech:
The Quality Jobs Act has incentivized business owners to create thousands of high-paying jobs that offer health care. Good middle-class jobs. The Quality Jobs Act has worked. We must not only continue this program, we must expand it.
"Incentivized"?
How did that ugly pseudo-word get into the speech? There's no actual verb that could have described the act in question?
Motivated? Stimulated? Encouraged? None of those work?
Plus "incentivized" (or its equally ugly bastard brother "incent") implies that some sort of bonus or reward money caused businesses to create jobs, but the word is so weak that it leaves this idea of monetary reward hanging in the air like a whisper. Is that really what the Governor meant?
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