Evans Liberal Politics, June 28, 2010, by “A Rather Vocal Critic”, quoted verbatim: Note by Paul Evans: This writer has been a friend of mine for many years. Although initially a supporter of Obama, he has felt obligated to be somewhat against the President in recent months. These opinions are his and not necessarily the opinion of Evans Liberal Politics. We felt he should have a voice.

Obama’s Health Care Reform
CNN reported today, starting July 1st, there can be no denial of health insurance based upon pre-existing conditions. Sounds good huh?  Well, again according to CNN, a person can now purchase insurance based on the “street price” from insurance companies. (These are non negotiated rates “lower rates” that you would not be able to get unless, for example, you worked for a company). Last time I checked, for myself, a “street” policy through Blue Cross was $500, with a $1000 deductible. Now, comes the zinger. The insurance can base the insurance policies price on your age.

Insurance companies can now use “age” now to raise their rates with no limits set. Hmmmmm. Where was AARP on this one?

Anyway, imagine if you are unemployed and receiving unemployment.  What is it? $300/week. Suppose you have a family? Do really think you could afford to purchase a ”street” priced insurance policy if you are 40 55, 60 and up? I dont’ give a darn whether you have pre-existing or not, most will never be able to afford health insurance. This is not universal health care. Not even close.

Let me amend. There were how many cut off by Congress last week that won’t get any unemployment insurance now? I think it is close to a million. So you really think these people are going to purchase health insurance when they can’t put food on the table for their families?

G-20 Summit

Did you get to watch the Obama news conference afterwards? He sees “no end in sight” for our “occupation” in Afghanistan. He says, “We will review our policy to see what is and is not working, but, according to Obama, “This is the country where the 9/11 terrorists came from.” Many of the Taliban are hiding in Pakistan because we uprooted them in Afghanistan. Yet, he says “Americans should plan for the long haul for our military forces to be in Afghanistan. This will be one of America’s longest wars (10 years and probably much longer)”  Hmmmmmm. I think those who voted for Obama were thinking we were going to get OUT of being the world military occupiers like Bush was. Guess again.

Also, Obama says “we are now going to reduce the deficit by 2013. Gates is cutting military programs.” Yet, Gates testified that there will not be a budget as promised by June as it has been delayed when last week when he testified in front of Congress.  I know they are giving rather large bonuses based on reviews, rather than the normal merit increases for the civilian military personnel. Hmmmmmmm.  The GAO has come out and said the military is still overspending in some recent reports on items they shouldn’t be.

Obama said, “For those pundits who don’t think I mean business the American people are going to hear some very tough choices from me after the first of the year to reduce the deficit.”  I think he means to pay for his Wall Street and bank bailouts. I feel the words may be, “tax increases“. He stressed, “Even if we didn’t have the major recession our baby boomers costs are skyrocketing (Social Security, Medicare etc) would have put us in a deficit anyway just not as big.” By the way, is your credit or borrowing power any better since the bailouts? I heard from my bank and credit card companies, “we are not loaning out any money in the foreseeable future to anyone with less than a crystal clear, perfect credit score.”

North Korea
I must have slept through high school history classes. I did find them quite boring. There was a PBS special on the Korean War I watched last week.  What a major screw-up that we are still paying for today. The Korean war lost more US soldiers than the Vietnam war. (Didn’t know that).  Russia and China supplied military needs for the North during this war.  The US soldiers were not armed properly and definitely not clothed properly to meet the challenges of the severe weather in Korea. The so called “truce” was because “our government knew” we could not win the war. When the Armistice was signed many US troops were still fighting. After they found out about the “truce” they thought, “What?” What was all this for? All these lives for a truce? It showed many Korean vets coming home. There was no ticker parades, in fact, like Vietnam many came home to “shame”. The Korean US vets that spoke of the war on this PBS special, I felt sorry for. Their families said, “Rarely do they ever mention the war. They feel shamed and betrayed.”

Obama said at the G-20, “I can understand China’s reluctance to take action against the North as those two countries are connected on the same continent.”  There is much more history than just being on the same continent. Watch the PBS special on the Korean war.
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I try not to watch CSPAN any more as the largest “amount” of complainers are those who voted for Obama and are still waiting for their handouts from him. Many at the far left are extremely impatient when it comes to their stimulus payment and disillusioned with his presidency.

What the majority of callers from any party on CSPAN agree on is they all despise Congress 100%.
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I don’t agree that having a back story into Rolling Stone magazine was a good idea. Although if you want out of a bad situation, a war that is being lost, the former general did the right thing. I might have chosen People, a little more classy.  I think the general and his aides spoke the truth. To summarize, I think “they” much would have rather had Hillary answering the phone at 3 am (if you remember her commercial).
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The so-called liberal media is now turning against the person they once so adamantly supported. Some news organizations, like CNN and the New York Times, much quicker than I ever imagined.

See World Leaders Agree on Timetable for Cutting Deficits, The New York Times, June 27, 2010, by Sewell Chan and Jackie Calmes.

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