This trivial little detail - the caption below your photo of the Progressive building - caught my attention:
"Progressive is another top ten insurance company... Their spokesperson, Flo, speaks with an American accent, but everyone loves and trusts her because she is “down to earth” and doesn’t “put on airs,” like that gecko does with his hoity-toity British accent."
Having nothing better to do with my Sunday morning, I impulsively decided to look up "Flo", and wouldn't you know it?
"Stephanie Courtney is the actress behind the iconic character Flo in Progressive Insurance commercials. She has been playing Flo since 2008, making her one of the most recognizable faces in advertising. Flo's character, known for her bright red lipstick, bold winged eyeliner, and perky energy, has become a staple in Progressive's ad campaigns, helping to simplify and make insurance shopping an enjoyable experience for viewers. Courtney's portrayal of Flo has been so successful that she reportedly makes around $10 million per year from the role."
To my discerning eye she appears to be a Jewess of The Tribe. From her Wikipedia entry:
"Courtney was born in Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, the youngest of three children of a high-school history teacher father and a singer mother.[4][1] In 1992, she graduated with a degree in English from Binghamton University, where she played Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, affirming her decision to be an actress.[5] After graduation, she moved to New York City, where her roommate was future author and columnist Meghan Daum.[1] While working as a secretary for Smith Barney chairman Robert F. Greenhill, Courtney studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse."
Smith Barney?
"American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage. It is the wealth & asset management division of Morgan Stanley. On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management."
Robert F. Greenhill?
"Robert F. Greenhill (born 1936) is an American businessman widely credited with helping create and pioneer the modern mergers and acquisitions advisory business on Wall Street.[1][2] He is the founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co., an investment bank headquartered in New York City[1][3][4][5] which since its inception, has advised on transactions valued at close to $3 trillion and now operates in 17 offices globally across North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia and Australia."
Yeah, that was just a cursory 2-minute inquiry. Why is it every...single...time? Every mossy rock I turn over has them scuttling like sowbugs underneath.
Some day I'll take the time to explain to you how I am convinced that the "Like" button is a Jewish conspiracy, which is why I never use it. (For now, I'm off to take my meds).
What you want to do, is dig deeper. Insurance company executives typically have 2-6 homes around the country, even the smaller mutual companies. Like banks, their employees are barely paid a living wage, while these narcissistic sociopaths can literally bathe in money.
Then along comes the convid scheme, where the banks and insurers(sometimes they are both), decides to send their useless eaters to work from home, and pocketing $26,500 per employee, for not firing or laying off said useless eaters(they didn’t want to pay the mandated $100 per day travel premium per employee).
Inflation soars, causing building material prices to soar, causing double digit increases to commercial property and homeowners insurance premiums.
People cannot get new vehicles as supplies fail due to a contrived chip shortage, prices go through the roof, and insurance premiums likewise skyrocket.
Executives typically require any employee who reaches manager level, contribute a part of their salary each year to the appropriate state lobbying arm, who in turn works against policyholders.
And I’m even the most communist of states, insurance executives and their fleet of inside and outside attorneys have a cozy relationship.
Executive compensation records have to filed with the state each year, and it is a tough dig, but very enlightening.
The relationship with the insurance buying public is predatory, not unlike that group that controls banking, information, and policy at the government level.
And they lull the public and their customers back to sleep whispering sweet nothings in creepy ads; telling us they’ll put us back to our pre-loss condition.
Only if the exclusions don’t permit it and it’s between the hours of 12:00 and 12:01 on the first Sunday of each leap year.
I believe it applies to the state each entity was filed in. You also need to determine the compensation from each company’s affiliate companies, which may be filed in other states. Affiliates can be mutual or stock companies. Upon retirement, they sell their stocks back to the other principals for a cozy sum.
I once went after a Republican congressman from Utah named Chris Cannon, who was so corrupt he could be bought by immigration lawyers from India for $1,000 and dinner. He (his people) did stuff like form non-profits with names like CLIIC Inc and another with CLIIC, Inc. (notice the difference) in different states like Nevada and Virginia and then a check written to the charity would be deposited into the business entity and so on. The tragedy was that, even with hard proof of his corrupt, illegal activity, neither the national media, the Utah media, the Utah attorney general, nor the FBI cared.
Excellent summary of another empire racket and scam. Is anything not these days? Wait til your foreign readers learn about health "insurance" in the empire. I tried explaining it to a group of French nurses before a surgery ten years ago but it was like trying to explain physics to a cat. I was discharged two days later having paid two euro in total for a bottle of water at the hospital gift shop on my way out. Muh, empire robots say muh socialism bad. Corporate fraud posing as rugged individualism good. You sure about that figure of 6 million wrecks? Even with wooden doors?
It's a crime how these companies prey on old people, especially--wiping out their life's savings and their kids' inheritance. But if there is a chance your wife can live another six months...
I got that stat from a .gov site, so you know you can trust it:
Yes, live free or die. New Hampshire is actually my favorite state. They require you to have enough money in the bank in case you have an accident. I don’t know if once you prove it if you have to prove it again anymore until the next year.
I lived in Massachusetts .
Howie Carr told us about how a woman was driving in downtown Boston and an illegal immigrant hit her and she called the police and he laughed in her face and said “you’re stupid if you think they are going to do anything”
So police get there and tell her they can’t do anything, it’s a sanctuary city so they can’t arrest these people, she should put that she found it that way when she came out of the store.
The illegal laughed in her face as he drove away and said “I told you so”
It’s amazing what people are putting up with.
I couldn’t. I spent my life, over half a century in Massachusetts, but I ended up moving to a red state and it is so much better.
You ain't seen nothing. I have a second home on the beach here in Panama. The accidents here are unbelievable. I purchased a nice car, but I hardly drive it due to the rude and irresponsible drivers. Take a look at Traffico Panama. https://www.facebook.com/traficocpanama Insurance is required, but I have a feeling the strategy is to NEVER pay out any of the claims. I am returning to West Virginia next week. I can't wait to get behind the wheel of my car and drive in relative peace. I am looking forward to Appalachian spring and safer roads.
If they paid out on the claims, where would they get the money to pay off the politicians?
It's sort of deflating to hear that other countries are in the same boat we are. I nourished a kind of fail-safe hope there exists somewhere an alternative.
Health insurance is the worst of all. The entire health care industry is so corrupt from so many angles that it is nearly unfathomable.
One of the most eye-opening, moving, and cynical books I have ever read was Critical Care, a first novel written by an attorney in Omaha named Richard Dooling about the horrors of the health care industry. The blurbs on the cover were from doctors who wrote that this attorney had written the precise truth. It was made into a movie, I think. He argues that the last thing a person wants is excellent health care insurance.
"From birth to death, life is a journey through a world of oppression, exploitation, and theft."
~ Kevin Johnson
Great piece, Craig. Insurance companies suck ass. I recently had to navigate an auto claim when my son's vehicle was struck by another student's in his high school parking lot. The other party testified they were at fault and after 8 months of stonewalling their insurance company Progressive still hasn't paid the claim. As you've described, it's clear these companies train their employees to avoid paying out any claims. It's all a racket, likely violates the RICO act, and of course these criminal organizations will never be held accountable.
Not to mention, bribery is, in fact, illegal. Where is that half billion dollars per year going? New drapes for the employee dining room? Thanks, Kevin. As we used to say, life's a bitch, then you die.
JUST WOW. I totally feel your pain. The plan is obviously to never payout if they can help it at all. It's true for every type of insurance out there. I wish I had never had a mortgage on my house, because I could have done without the insurance mafia, that charges me $4k yearly for a fire that hasn't happened in 200 years (House is built of stone in 1830), and never will. I begged borrowed and argued for the lowest possible premium and the highest possible deductible, and that's where I wound up.
At least THANK GOD health insurance is not mandated. I have never spent one red cent on that garbage, not for me, my ex or our son. Not one farthing.
YOU WROTE: Today, a cop driving down the highway doesn’t even have to stop you to see whether you’re a customer of an insurance company. They can run your tags from their own vehicle to catch uninsured motorists, and I hear that in some places they have something like a bar code scanner that will automatically alert them that a passing vehicle is uninsured.
THAT'S HOW I GOT ARRESTED LAST YEAR! I wrote a Substack Post in June 'So I was arrested last night'. My son was pulled over by a cop that ran his tags in his computer and they came back 'uninsured'. (So cops are really just an extension of the insurance companies).. I went to the scene of the traffic stop - got my GEICO agent on the phone who personally told the cop that the car was 'FULLY insured With NO LAPSE'. The cop not only towed the car anyway, he towed the car I came in, and when I protested from a safe distance, came over assaulted me and then arrested me.
The rest is in the post and the followup post, a very smart judge dismissed all charges, but not before I went through months of wasted time, energy and emotions.
I HATE the DC Beltway. Any insurance agent down there KNOWS you can't whip out a writing tablet to record a plate number at rush hour, and its ILLEGAL to use a phone while driving.
The system is rigged to benefit a tiny percentage. Which is why the kid that shot that guy, is now something of a 'Robinhood'., in the eyes of so many. So many people are frustrated.
But at the risk of redundancy,.. I will lay the blame at the foot of the pulpits in America that preach ungodly 'PROSPERITY' over compassion (everything 'compassionate is just another pretext for prosperity - quid pro quo - pay the church to 'spread the Gospel', and watch for your check in the bank'.). and the massive congregations that just 'eat it all up'.
I for one, and searching worldwide where to move to. I cannot stomach this place anymore.
"But at the risk of redundancy,.. I will lay the blame at the foot of the pulpits in America that preach ungodly 'PROSPERITY' over compassion (everything 'compassionate is just another pretext for prosperity - quid pro quo - pay the church to 'spread the Gospel', and watch for your check in the bank'.). and the massive congregations that just 'eat it all up'."
The churches are rotten to the core. They WORSHIP money while every last one of them, from the clergy to the laity, screams bloody murder if you point out that obvious fact.
My next post delves into that.
I was shocked at the attitudes in Kansas when I got there. Forget about compassion for the little Palestinian kids we are helping the Jews slaughter in Gaza. They just grunt something about "terrorists" and that's all the thought they give it. (Now, talk about money and you are going to HOLD THEIR ATTENTION.)
But the harshness toward their own children and the children of their neighbors. That's what really shocked me. They'll read about some local guy, young guy with kids, arrested with meth residue in a pipe and sentenced to 25 years. Maybe he'll learn a lesson, they purr with satisfaction. Never mind that his life is ruined, his kids are stigmatized and their futures severely hobbled, his marriage is probably ruined, his career, he'll lose his house. Maybe he shouldn't have "got on drugs" in the first place, they snarl heartlessly. These are my people--northern European Protestants. No thank you.
did you know,. James Fenimore Cooper complained about Americans (after he, an American, returned from living abroad) in the same way we are.. IT was noticed already in the 19th Century, the $$$ in American eyes. So did a Christian convert from India, go to London, and before long said 'If this is Christianity, I am not a Christian'. And anyone wonders why there will be 'Christians' here when the Church goes up?
basically, it's laziness at the core. People belong to the Church as they would a 'club'. Buy your way in, be a card carrying member to get the benefits, but don't ask me to actually learn anything..
I was active duty in california one year (1992 - 93) couldn't wait to leave.
That I'm on the 'East Coast California' is an accident of birth. But not ALL states, nor regions are as bad as others.
One thing we notice about God's people in Scripture - they did not stay put.. Abraham, Lot, Enoch, Jacob, Joseph et all.. went out as they were led. Now we're specifically directed to 'get out of Babylon' The responsibility of the interpretation of that verse is our own to discipher for ourselves. I will tend to take it literally.
I hear you about these retail insurance companies. Thankfully, I have USAA for both auto and homeowners and I've never had a problem with anything. They're great. (My father was a career Navy officer, which is how I was able to become a USAA member.)
USAA's headquarters are in San Antonio, coincidentally my current destination after another stop in Texas. It is the lair of John Hagee, who must be condemned. I almost included a pic of the USAA headquarters, as it is quite striking, but decided the post was too long already:
The USAA HQ building looks like the architects were drunk when they designed it... But, that said, my own personal experience with USAA has been great, as has the experience relayed to me by other family and friends who have USAA.
Well, they are one of the largest insurance companies, but only #22 in terms of lobbying expenditures. Somebody should do an analysis of customer satisfaction vs lobbying dependence. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the more a company relies on lobbying and payments to politicians for its profit strategy, the lower their overall ranking will be in terms of customer satisfaction.
I think the military connection has the most to do with their customer service and customer satisfaction. Only military members and their families are eligible for USAA.
It may be different now, but, as I recall, Nevada appeared to have no oversight whatsoever over corporate filings. Almost every native Nevadan is a "registered agent" and between Chinese shell companies, Israeli NGOs, Mexican drug cartels, and US politicians, they can't keep up with the demand to form Nevada corporations.
I live in your area and feel your pain on this. Just a heads up, although no fault of your own, insurance will increase in about three months. It happened to me. They really want us in those 15 minute cities.
My favorite so to speak, I heard I think on the radio a few years back thus it's now completely anecdotal. Seems some woman bought a gold-plated travel insurance policy before going on a trip to South America, and of course, just about the worst thing that could possibly happen did; she was in an accident that left her a quadriplegic.
Up here in British Columbia we have the worst of all evils: The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, "ICBC" for short, owned by the British Columbia government. It is a monopoly; all drivers in British Columbia must be insured by this government-owned corporation. Does it get any more Kafkaesque?
You realize the scam that is insurances but you don't understand that the use of currencies is an insurance itself. All insurances are scams and steal from the users. The reason the insurances you complain about exist is because few understand the mechanics of money. If you did you would know it is the literal life blood of evil incarnate.
This trivial little detail - the caption below your photo of the Progressive building - caught my attention:
"Progressive is another top ten insurance company... Their spokesperson, Flo, speaks with an American accent, but everyone loves and trusts her because she is “down to earth” and doesn’t “put on airs,” like that gecko does with his hoity-toity British accent."
Having nothing better to do with my Sunday morning, I impulsively decided to look up "Flo", and wouldn't you know it?
"Stephanie Courtney is the actress behind the iconic character Flo in Progressive Insurance commercials. She has been playing Flo since 2008, making her one of the most recognizable faces in advertising. Flo's character, known for her bright red lipstick, bold winged eyeliner, and perky energy, has become a staple in Progressive's ad campaigns, helping to simplify and make insurance shopping an enjoyable experience for viewers. Courtney's portrayal of Flo has been so successful that she reportedly makes around $10 million per year from the role."
To my discerning eye she appears to be a Jewess of The Tribe. From her Wikipedia entry:
"Courtney was born in Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, the youngest of three children of a high-school history teacher father and a singer mother.[4][1] In 1992, she graduated with a degree in English from Binghamton University, where she played Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, affirming her decision to be an actress.[5] After graduation, she moved to New York City, where her roommate was future author and columnist Meghan Daum.[1] While working as a secretary for Smith Barney chairman Robert F. Greenhill, Courtney studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse."
Smith Barney?
"American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage. It is the wealth & asset management division of Morgan Stanley. On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management."
Robert F. Greenhill?
"Robert F. Greenhill (born 1936) is an American businessman widely credited with helping create and pioneer the modern mergers and acquisitions advisory business on Wall Street.[1][2] He is the founder and chairman of Greenhill & Co., an investment bank headquartered in New York City[1][3][4][5] which since its inception, has advised on transactions valued at close to $3 trillion and now operates in 17 offices globally across North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia and Australia."
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They run in packs, belong nowhere, and are essentially farming us.
Nice dig. The Internet has opened a window for us. Too bad we're al playing Internet poker or looking to poke her.
Yeah, that was just a cursory 2-minute inquiry. Why is it every...single...time? Every mossy rock I turn over has them scuttling like sowbugs underneath.
Some day I'll take the time to explain to you how I am convinced that the "Like" button is a Jewish conspiracy, which is why I never use it. (For now, I'm off to take my meds).
LOL, nevertheless I am going to rashly like your comment.
$10 million per year...sheesh
For what it's worth, JewScope.com is running the following poll:
"Is Stephanie Courtney Jewish?"
Currently, over 72% say yes, she is.
https://www.jewscope.com/en/p/stephanie-courtney
What you want to do, is dig deeper. Insurance company executives typically have 2-6 homes around the country, even the smaller mutual companies. Like banks, their employees are barely paid a living wage, while these narcissistic sociopaths can literally bathe in money.
Then along comes the convid scheme, where the banks and insurers(sometimes they are both), decides to send their useless eaters to work from home, and pocketing $26,500 per employee, for not firing or laying off said useless eaters(they didn’t want to pay the mandated $100 per day travel premium per employee).
Inflation soars, causing building material prices to soar, causing double digit increases to commercial property and homeowners insurance premiums.
People cannot get new vehicles as supplies fail due to a contrived chip shortage, prices go through the roof, and insurance premiums likewise skyrocket.
Executives typically require any employee who reaches manager level, contribute a part of their salary each year to the appropriate state lobbying arm, who in turn works against policyholders.
And I’m even the most communist of states, insurance executives and their fleet of inside and outside attorneys have a cozy relationship.
Executive compensation records have to filed with the state each year, and it is a tough dig, but very enlightening.
The relationship with the insurance buying public is predatory, not unlike that group that controls banking, information, and policy at the government level.
And they lull the public and their customers back to sleep whispering sweet nothings in creepy ads; telling us they’ll put us back to our pre-loss condition.
Only if the exclusions don’t permit it and it’s between the hours of 12:00 and 12:01 on the first Sunday of each leap year.
Well, you nailed it, Morton.
"Executive compensation records have to filed with the state each year, and it is a tough dig, but very enlightening."
I didn't know this. Is this true for every state?
I believe it applies to the state each entity was filed in. You also need to determine the compensation from each company’s affiliate companies, which may be filed in other states. Affiliates can be mutual or stock companies. Upon retirement, they sell their stocks back to the other principals for a cozy sum.
Yes, a deep dig, indeed.
I once went after a Republican congressman from Utah named Chris Cannon, who was so corrupt he could be bought by immigration lawyers from India for $1,000 and dinner. He (his people) did stuff like form non-profits with names like CLIIC Inc and another with CLIIC, Inc. (notice the difference) in different states like Nevada and Virginia and then a check written to the charity would be deposited into the business entity and so on. The tragedy was that, even with hard proof of his corrupt, illegal activity, neither the national media, the Utah media, the Utah attorney general, nor the FBI cared.
Excellent summary of another empire racket and scam. Is anything not these days? Wait til your foreign readers learn about health "insurance" in the empire. I tried explaining it to a group of French nurses before a surgery ten years ago but it was like trying to explain physics to a cat. I was discharged two days later having paid two euro in total for a bottle of water at the hospital gift shop on my way out. Muh, empire robots say muh socialism bad. Corporate fraud posing as rugged individualism good. You sure about that figure of 6 million wrecks? Even with wooden doors?
Damn, I just now got the wooden doors reference.
It's a crime how these companies prey on old people, especially--wiping out their life's savings and their kids' inheritance. But if there is a chance your wife can live another six months...
I got that stat from a .gov site, so you know you can trust it:
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813560
It's always 6 million. (And psssttttt...the doors were made of cheese)
10 NEWSPAPERS BEFORE WW2 - 6 Million Jews Propaganda
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9eYW7pPJopQ8
*"Der Hauptmann" is excellent"
Yes, live free or die. New Hampshire is actually my favorite state. They require you to have enough money in the bank in case you have an accident. I don’t know if once you prove it if you have to prove it again anymore until the next year.
I lived in Massachusetts .
Howie Carr told us about how a woman was driving in downtown Boston and an illegal immigrant hit her and she called the police and he laughed in her face and said “you’re stupid if you think they are going to do anything”
So police get there and tell her they can’t do anything, it’s a sanctuary city so they can’t arrest these people, she should put that she found it that way when she came out of the store.
The illegal laughed in her face as he drove away and said “I told you so”
It’s amazing what people are putting up with.
I couldn’t. I spent my life, over half a century in Massachusetts, but I ended up moving to a red state and it is so much better.
Craig, great article as always.
You ain't seen nothing. I have a second home on the beach here in Panama. The accidents here are unbelievable. I purchased a nice car, but I hardly drive it due to the rude and irresponsible drivers. Take a look at Traffico Panama. https://www.facebook.com/traficocpanama Insurance is required, but I have a feeling the strategy is to NEVER pay out any of the claims. I am returning to West Virginia next week. I can't wait to get behind the wheel of my car and drive in relative peace. I am looking forward to Appalachian spring and safer roads.
If they paid out on the claims, where would they get the money to pay off the politicians?
It's sort of deflating to hear that other countries are in the same boat we are. I nourished a kind of fail-safe hope there exists somewhere an alternative.
Excellent. Do the bankruptcy-inducing health insurance scam next.
Health insurance is the worst of all. The entire health care industry is so corrupt from so many angles that it is nearly unfathomable.
One of the most eye-opening, moving, and cynical books I have ever read was Critical Care, a first novel written by an attorney in Omaha named Richard Dooling about the horrors of the health care industry. The blurbs on the cover were from doctors who wrote that this attorney had written the precise truth. It was made into a movie, I think. He argues that the last thing a person wants is excellent health care insurance.
Perhaps the only profession that could rival "Health Insurance Executive" for the title of Most Evil Job on Earth would be CIA Black Site Torturer.
"From birth to death, life is a journey through a world of oppression, exploitation, and theft."
~ Kevin Johnson
Great piece, Craig. Insurance companies suck ass. I recently had to navigate an auto claim when my son's vehicle was struck by another student's in his high school parking lot. The other party testified they were at fault and after 8 months of stonewalling their insurance company Progressive still hasn't paid the claim. As you've described, it's clear these companies train their employees to avoid paying out any claims. It's all a racket, likely violates the RICO act, and of course these criminal organizations will never be held accountable.
Not to mention, bribery is, in fact, illegal. Where is that half billion dollars per year going? New drapes for the employee dining room? Thanks, Kevin. As we used to say, life's a bitch, then you die.
JUST WOW. I totally feel your pain. The plan is obviously to never payout if they can help it at all. It's true for every type of insurance out there. I wish I had never had a mortgage on my house, because I could have done without the insurance mafia, that charges me $4k yearly for a fire that hasn't happened in 200 years (House is built of stone in 1830), and never will. I begged borrowed and argued for the lowest possible premium and the highest possible deductible, and that's where I wound up.
At least THANK GOD health insurance is not mandated. I have never spent one red cent on that garbage, not for me, my ex or our son. Not one farthing.
YOU WROTE: Today, a cop driving down the highway doesn’t even have to stop you to see whether you’re a customer of an insurance company. They can run your tags from their own vehicle to catch uninsured motorists, and I hear that in some places they have something like a bar code scanner that will automatically alert them that a passing vehicle is uninsured.
THAT'S HOW I GOT ARRESTED LAST YEAR! I wrote a Substack Post in June 'So I was arrested last night'. My son was pulled over by a cop that ran his tags in his computer and they came back 'uninsured'. (So cops are really just an extension of the insurance companies).. I went to the scene of the traffic stop - got my GEICO agent on the phone who personally told the cop that the car was 'FULLY insured With NO LAPSE'. The cop not only towed the car anyway, he towed the car I came in, and when I protested from a safe distance, came over assaulted me and then arrested me.
The rest is in the post and the followup post, a very smart judge dismissed all charges, but not before I went through months of wasted time, energy and emotions.
I HATE the DC Beltway. Any insurance agent down there KNOWS you can't whip out a writing tablet to record a plate number at rush hour, and its ILLEGAL to use a phone while driving.
The system is rigged to benefit a tiny percentage. Which is why the kid that shot that guy, is now something of a 'Robinhood'., in the eyes of so many. So many people are frustrated.
But at the risk of redundancy,.. I will lay the blame at the foot of the pulpits in America that preach ungodly 'PROSPERITY' over compassion (everything 'compassionate is just another pretext for prosperity - quid pro quo - pay the church to 'spread the Gospel', and watch for your check in the bank'.). and the massive congregations that just 'eat it all up'.
I for one, and searching worldwide where to move to. I cannot stomach this place anymore.
Yes, yes, yes:
"But at the risk of redundancy,.. I will lay the blame at the foot of the pulpits in America that preach ungodly 'PROSPERITY' over compassion (everything 'compassionate is just another pretext for prosperity - quid pro quo - pay the church to 'spread the Gospel', and watch for your check in the bank'.). and the massive congregations that just 'eat it all up'."
The churches are rotten to the core. They WORSHIP money while every last one of them, from the clergy to the laity, screams bloody murder if you point out that obvious fact.
My next post delves into that.
I was shocked at the attitudes in Kansas when I got there. Forget about compassion for the little Palestinian kids we are helping the Jews slaughter in Gaza. They just grunt something about "terrorists" and that's all the thought they give it. (Now, talk about money and you are going to HOLD THEIR ATTENTION.)
But the harshness toward their own children and the children of their neighbors. That's what really shocked me. They'll read about some local guy, young guy with kids, arrested with meth residue in a pipe and sentenced to 25 years. Maybe he'll learn a lesson, they purr with satisfaction. Never mind that his life is ruined, his kids are stigmatized and their futures severely hobbled, his marriage is probably ruined, his career, he'll lose his house. Maybe he shouldn't have "got on drugs" in the first place, they snarl heartlessly. These are my people--northern European Protestants. No thank you.
did you know,. James Fenimore Cooper complained about Americans (after he, an American, returned from living abroad) in the same way we are.. IT was noticed already in the 19th Century, the $$$ in American eyes. So did a Christian convert from India, go to London, and before long said 'If this is Christianity, I am not a Christian'. And anyone wonders why there will be 'Christians' here when the Church goes up?
basically, it's laziness at the core. People belong to the Church as they would a 'club'. Buy your way in, be a card carrying member to get the benefits, but don't ask me to actually learn anything..
In particular, don't ask me to actually read the Bible I claim to base my life on. far EASIER to let someone tell me what's in it.
... yeah.
Dear "Prophesy', Nobody imagines there to be a 'paradise on earth'. (yet) (Nyet).,
But New York where we are in a dark stronghold. I'd sooner live in North Korea than stay here.
I was active duty in california one year (1992 - 93) couldn't wait to leave.
That I'm on the 'East Coast California' is an accident of birth. But not ALL states, nor regions are as bad as others.
One thing we notice about God's people in Scripture - they did not stay put.. Abraham, Lot, Enoch, Jacob, Joseph et all.. went out as they were led. Now we're specifically directed to 'get out of Babylon' The responsibility of the interpretation of that verse is our own to discipher for ourselves. I will tend to take it literally.
I hear you about these retail insurance companies. Thankfully, I have USAA for both auto and homeowners and I've never had a problem with anything. They're great. (My father was a career Navy officer, which is how I was able to become a USAA member.)
USAA's headquarters are in San Antonio, coincidentally my current destination after another stop in Texas. It is the lair of John Hagee, who must be condemned. I almost included a pic of the USAA headquarters, as it is quite striking, but decided the post was too long already:
https://images.app.goo.gl/AVbALBpGF7p1vPqj6
The USAA HQ building looks like the architects were drunk when they designed it... But, that said, my own personal experience with USAA has been great, as has the experience relayed to me by other family and friends who have USAA.
Well, they are one of the largest insurance companies, but only #22 in terms of lobbying expenditures. Somebody should do an analysis of customer satisfaction vs lobbying dependence. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the more a company relies on lobbying and payments to politicians for its profit strategy, the lower their overall ranking will be in terms of customer satisfaction.
I think the military connection has the most to do with their customer service and customer satisfaction. Only military members and their families are eligible for USAA.
Sorry, meant domiciled, not filed. They incorporate in one state but may be filed to write in numerous states.
It may be different now, but, as I recall, Nevada appeared to have no oversight whatsoever over corporate filings. Almost every native Nevadan is a "registered agent" and between Chinese shell companies, Israeli NGOs, Mexican drug cartels, and US politicians, they can't keep up with the demand to form Nevada corporations.
I live in your area and feel your pain on this. Just a heads up, although no fault of your own, insurance will increase in about three months. It happened to me. They really want us in those 15 minute cities.
My favorite so to speak, I heard I think on the radio a few years back thus it's now completely anecdotal. Seems some woman bought a gold-plated travel insurance policy before going on a trip to South America, and of course, just about the worst thing that could possibly happen did; she was in an accident that left her a quadriplegic.
Her insurance company denied her claim.
Up here in British Columbia we have the worst of all evils: The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, "ICBC" for short, owned by the British Columbia government. It is a monopoly; all drivers in British Columbia must be insured by this government-owned corporation. Does it get any more Kafkaesque?
You realize the scam that is insurances but you don't understand that the use of currencies is an insurance itself. All insurances are scams and steal from the users. The reason the insurances you complain about exist is because few understand the mechanics of money. If you did you would know it is the literal life blood of evil incarnate.
"It’s the heart of man that needs to be changed from within."
Like a religious revolution... :)