Disgusting Insurance Practice

Heard something interesting from my agent for my bike. It appears that in the next 15 months or so if you don't use the internet and email to receive all your policy info and to pay your bill electronically you will be put in the CT Assigned Risk Pool. Not because of your driving history but how you pay your bills. It appears checks and receiving mail is not approved by the insurance industry.

 

As of now this is suppose to only affect the "recreational vehicles" motorcycles, ATVs, boats stuff like that. How long do you think it will be before the insurance companies force you to do that for your car? I mean to pay an "Assigned Risk" rate like a drunk driver, or an accident prone person just because you want to write checks? Disgusting and if our legislature lets this happen well fill in the blank on what should happen to them.

 

Oh yeah those of you who don't insure recreational vehicles sit back and say it won't happen to me just watch. And what happens when seniors who are on fixed incomes have their rates doubled or tripled because they are not computer savvy.

 

The media should jump all over this, as well as all of you.

OMG I was looking at the TV guide channel and here is this advertisement for that Paris Hilton idiot to buy herself a British Best Friend.

I feel like Rip van Winkle. It seems I took a nap and when I woke up they had a whole new section in the dept store, a "BUY A FRIEND DEPT" again OMG. When I was growing up and still now in my life and the people I deal with, you don't buy friends you make them with trust, caring and love. You enjoy spending time with them for who they are not what they can buy you.
Then the put this on TV and the kids grow up thinking you have to buy friends, it's the material things that matter, that other moronic show I see advertised Gene Simmons just the ads are disgusting it's all about greed and materialistic behavior.

And people wonder why kids turn to drugs, risky sex and behavior or kill themselves. Look at the role models they have. Useless pieces of junk whose claim to fame is what? It sure isn't any of the virtues of life. They sure don't exemplify any goods behaviors it's all selfish and greed.

Glad I'm my age. I shudder when I think of what the generation that will follow these teenagers will be.

ZPG

Zero Population Growth. Haven't heard much about that in awhile. I wonder why that is, maybe it had it's 15 minutes of fame I don't know.

 

What brought it to the fore front in my mind was an article in the April edition of the National Geographic about water.

 

It seems ( and I may be off a % point or 2 I'm doing this from memory) that 97.5% of the water on the earth is salty and not fit for human consumption, out of the remaining 2.5% a tad over 1.5% is locked up in snow and ice leaving only 1% of the water on earth for human and animal consumption. That's not a lot of water.

 

Another fact that was mentioned was that we are adding 83 million humans to the planet per year. To me this is a recipe for global disaster.

 

The earth is a finite sphere it only has so much land, water and air it can only support so many beings. I think it is closely reaching it's maximum limit if we are not already there. It could just take the straw that broke the camels back and life as we know it is over.

 

And we caused this problem. How? By healing too many diseases, by keeping people alive on machines and wasting precious irreplaceable resources, by refusing to accept the fact that we were born to die and not live forever. Mother nature gave us a certain life span that through out history kept the planet and it's inhabitants healthy. Now we have screwed that up. In our arrogance and science we have gone up against mother nature's plan and we had better watch out. Look at the abnormal weather patterns, the new diseases that are popping up. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

 

I have no answer to this and I don't think there is one, we crossed onto to the slippery slope of over population awhile back and the only question in my mind is how long of a slide do we have until total extinction? I don't think too long. I know people say science will save us, science caused this. What do you think caused the potato famine in Ireland, science is what hybrid potatoes that were all acceptable to the same blights and on and on.

 

I could say more but I'd like to hear other thoughts before extinction hits.

Stupid government

The fact the government is run by morons with no feeling for the American taxpayer goes without saying, however I love to say it to remind myself and others.

 

They have now reached a new low in stupidity and waste of taxpayers dollars.

In my mail this afternoon was an envelope from the census bureau, I thought OK I'll fill it out and send it back get it out of the way. I opened it and didn't see a return envelope than I read it. It was just a letter telling me that next week my census form was coming and to fill it out and mail it back.

 

Let's see, newspaper ads, TV ads, radio ads, and a form coming in the mail that says you have to fill this out and send it back. I guess who ever the brain dead moron was who thought up this mailing thought he was dealing with government employees who couldn't figure out what to do with the census form with out a letter first. Oh yeah and he probably got a bonus for the monthly government contest of "Stupidest ways to waste tax dollars". And they get better benefits than us, they'll probably get paid to fill out the form because it's "government work" who knows maybe even OT.

 

I wish I could say I am totally amazed but I'm not I'm just wondering what the next stupid moronic thing the government will do to top this.

 

Oh yeah it's printed in different languages.

Bring back America

"Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state." --Alexander Hamilton, Report on a National Bank, 1790

 

Can anyone remember when an American administration republican or democrat cared more for maintaining jobs or pride in America what the above quote says than it did for giving it away and building up some other nation?

 

Herein is a problem for some reason American governmental officials feel what? Embarrassed that America was the greatest, most innovative/inventive country in the world and destroyed it by giving it all away.

 

Try to import into Brazil it's very tough, and our goods are highly dutied, yet anything coming from Brazil comes in with little to no duty they have most favored nation status. Also if you do not sign your commercial invoice in blue they fine you $2500 US. This is just one example I see everyday of why we are going down the tubes. Last year it took 10 weeks to get permission of the Chinese government to send in a $1600 warranty replacement motor because they had to insure that a replacement made in China wouldn't work or that the EXACT motor wasn't made in China. You see China won't let you import machinery that they manufacture there. Yet tell them we're going to slap duties on their equipment and it's unfair trade and the cowards and traitors running the American government bow to them. Totally disgusting. We should put duty and VAT on all imports to the US that mirror the duty and VAT the country the imports are coming from put on US goods that make them more expensive than the home made goods.

 

It's time to protect America and the American worker and if other countries standards of living don't equal our that's their problem have their government figure it out. It's not the American Taxpayers job to feed and cloth the world.

Thank you MA voters

Yes THANK YOU MA voters for standing up for America. Thanks for taking a good hard look at what is ruining this great country which is obama, pelosi the racist reid and their ilk and saying no more we are taking back our country. The evil kennedy hold on MA is broken and with it the evil spell the obamanation had on America. YES it is a great day again for America. I foresee obama being impeached or forced to resign in disgrace before his term is up.

 

America real mom & pop hard working America doesn't tolerate Chicago thug politics, behind the scene buyout of the unions not to mention the illegal activities of ACORN nor do they sanction Czars like van jones and the are starting to speak again.

 

If you want to say anything good has come out of the obamanation administration it is that it has galvanized middle America, it has woken it from it's apathy and the silent majority is saying NO MORE. We want America for Americans not illegals, not socialist not communists but capitalist hard working Americans.

 

One Big Appalling Mistake America has the first big hole in the dam and it is about to burst no repair possible.

Who is it OK to offend?

Merry Christmas, Happy Yule, Happy Ramadan Hanukah, Kwanza whatever your holiday is.

My question is who feelings are more important?

Someone who was brought up to believe in Christmas and has brought their children up the same way now all of a sudden is not allowed to acknowledge or celebrate Christmas in a school because it may offend someone else. Did anyone consider not allowing people to celebrate or acknowledge their holiday offends them? Whose feelings are more important. Remember whether people want to admit it Christmas has been openly celebrated in American school and government since 1776 and now it is not. Why not?

Whether or not people want to acknowledge it this country was Christian based with a openness and an acceptance of all other religions. If it wasn't for the tolerance practiced by the Christians, none of these other religions would be allowed to practice openly in America and now these religions want to shut down or hurt the Christians? These other religions should be thankful that the Christians have allowed them to come here and practice and have not oppressed them as other countries have. They should do well to remember they came to this country for religious freedom and were given it so why are they trying to take away the religious freedom of the people who gave them their freedom?

Other religious groups are not in any way shape or form prohibited from celebrating or acknowledging their holidays why should Christians be?

How can celebrating Christmas offend Jews, Muslims or Blacks aren't these other religions taught tolerance and understanding?

So again who is it alright to offend and who isn't it? It's ok to offend Christians but not other religions why?

Just for the record I belong to no religious sect, group or practice I'm just asking why is always ok to offend certain people but not others. Yes you could take this into the race area of America also.

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