Re: Big Insurance Poised to Rob Your Eyeballs Out!
This time I am oddly with Haut on this one. As a victim of Hurricane Lili in 2002, and dodged two bullets with one hitting to the west of us (Rita) and one to the east (Katrina) in 2005 I can tell you that the insurance companies are a bit crooked.
In the areas down in south Louisana that are prone to flood damage in a major hurricane the insurance companies, AFTER having to actually pay some claims with the two above mentioned hurricanes in the parenthesis still posted RECORD PROFITS and then decided to drop everybody south of I-10!
The employees of these insurance companies don't mind one bit the millions of barrels of oil that are produced by the offshore oil rig workers that live in these houses, but they'll be damned to cover their houses for the hurricane risk that comes with living so close to an oil-rich area.
Like I've heard several people say, the rest of this nation doesn't give a damn about Louisiana. I agree, we should succeed from the union. Fick everybody else. We have enough oil to keep our own state nice and supplied, we can feed ourselves, insure ourselves, and employ ourselves. We don't need the drain that the rest of this nation puts on our state by taking our natural resources, selling them cheap, and then taxing us out of our minds to where we are one of the poorest states in this country. With the wealth of oil just off our coast, we should be one of the richest. The one damn thing our whacko governor did right was lobby in Washington for us to keep more of the profits we make from oil and gas to put back into our state. We have the worst roads in the nation and we have no money to fix them. Wash. DC is sucking the blood from our veins.
I agree, let's build a big wall and succeed. Then we'll see what people say when their gas prices double.
Oh yea, and build a barrier across the river delta and charge every single boat that wants to go up or down the Mississippi river $100/foot of vessel length. That'll help too.
