[Grovenet] Answer on 42.

[Steven]

Many of our insurance companies are international or 'off shore'.
Insurance has become quite a business. typically, you don't insure for
things you know will happen. Would you insure your tires against wearing
out? Yet they will insure just about everything for a price.
We can get insurance for anything or go without insurance. Some of the most
expensive cars on the road have minimum liability. If you're quite rich, why
would you want to spend money on the insurance?
Maybe, by using credit, insurance companies are choosing those who they can
charge back more items, deny coverage. Thus saving them more money.

If insurance were harder/more expensive to get wouldn't it boost mass
transit? With fewer folks on the road that are of greater risk, wouldn't it
be safer and conserve oil? I wonder what side Metro falls on with this prop?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com]On
> Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:38 AM
> To: 'Forest Grove local interests list'
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Answer on 42.
>
> That points to a huge challenge we must meet if our style of capitalism is
> going to work: choosing and enforcing the rules we do adopt while keeping
> them to a bare minimum to avoid killing off the businesses that form the
> backbone of our society. We haven't been doing so well at it for the last
> half century. That's why almost everything we buy comes from other
> countries
> now.
>
> >