What is a neo-con?

The other day one of my readers called me a "neo-con" taking potshots at the administration. I was thrilled that a reader responded to one of my blogs. However, I do not know what neo-con means. Wikipedia knows everything so here is what they say it is. Neocon is a right-wing political philosophy which supports using American economic and military power to bring liberalism, democracy, and human rights to other countries. Although I fail to see the inherent crime in the Wikipedia definition, I believe my reader was speaking pejoratively about me.

I do blog on the administration. But I am sure I do not want to use the military to take liberalism to other countries. I am also certain that I am not leading the charge to bring democracy to foreign countries. Because if I am, then those countries are in trouble. I am more of an existentialist. If they do not see the benefits of democracy, then then they can live in what ever form of dictatorship they want. I certainly do not take the position that "Thou shall be a democracy" to another country. Now that I think about it, I have never even corresponded with another country. So much for that.

Now here is a potshot.

Kathleen Sebelius was Governor of Kansas. She now is Secretary of Health and Human Services in Washington. She recently sent me, a medicare person, a 4 page brochure on what the New Health Care Law means to me. She told me it meant a lot. She told me it was good for me. She gave me several numbers to call for more information and a website that was chock full of good tips for me. She told me it would save me $200 per year in premiums and over $200 in co-insurance, and then she added this would happen in the year 2018. Further that over the next 20 years, there will be additional cost savings. She told me to fight fraud. She told me to be vigilant. She told me not to give my personal Medicare information to anyone, but a trusted source. The best thing she told me was that I would not lose any of the benefits I get now. That is a relief. And so on.

She also told me the insurance companies were going to make a lot more money with the new Health Care Law-after all they lobbied for it. Okay. She actually did not tell me that, but that is my conclusion from reading the brochure.

The brochure had 160 lines of text with the average line of 10 words. It was approximately 1600 words long. There was an assortment of pictures showing diversity and several old people with glasses. It was a beautiful brochure selling something. I just could not figure out what. I am just being diligent. I am not a neo-con. I want to be a sub-contractor making brochures for Kathleen Sebelius. There is something wrong with me because I enjoy reading these brochures just thinking about the number of signatures it must have taken to reduce 1600 words from meaningful to meaningless.

P.S. If you want to have some real fun, carefully read the letters you are now getting from your credit card companies. They are hilarious.