Posted on 03/13/2006 6:35:44 AM PST by NormB
"but how can I have GEICO if I am not a gov't employee then?"
GEICO has two different products it sells, one for Govt employees, and one for the general public. They made their services available to everyone about 10 years ago. I was with GEICO for 12 years. I had to switch last summer because my car insurance rates kept going up with no explanation. I haven't had a traffic ticket or accident since I was in high school. I use Esurance now, great rates and I can do everything on line.
GEICO is doing well because everyone loves the Gecko!
For a history of GEICO see here.
You missed that one by a mile....
I guess I see it differently. All these corporations that are taking jobs overseas, do you ever wonder why?
They have to make a profit, and there are too many regulations ( passed by greedy governments, and approved by greedy taxpayers who are hoping to get something for nothing); and excessive demands by unions.
Then if your company does have a great quarter (like Exxon), even if it's after 10 years of barely scraping by; the government passes a windfall profits tax and takes it.
Or, you get a group of greedy lawyers and politicians who go after your profits based on junk science like many tobacco industries; lumber companies and chemical companies.
Why should they stay ? Just to make money so that other people can use the power of government to steal it ?
I think most corporations have been exceedingly tolerant of the very anti-business climate here. We ought to be thanking them for the jobs that they do create in this climate, instead of further blaming them for having to obey the laws of economics.
Oh yeah thanks for reminding me, where the hell is my torte reform??
I have defended the President but your point is very well taken. I think you nailed it. Now as to the Republicans in Congress....
where did you get general electric? DEICO is government employees insurance company.
should be GEICO, not deico. Fat fingers
Well, considering that Congress is something like 70% lawyers; it's doubtfull that you'll ever see it.
Isolationism is the globalist code word for independence. Independence is bad, despite our national declaration for it,therefore their word for it, isolationism, is also bad.
I was trying to explain Bush to my 16-year-old, football-playing, clear-thinking, All-American son, who was quite puzzled about the port thing.
Here's what I told him:
Ronald Reagan was so popular and fabulous that after he left in 1988, we still wanted a piece of him, so Reagan's VP, Bush41, was the natural successor. Bush41 (read my lips) turned out not really Reaganesque, so just enough of us (not me!) thought we'd try something new and with Ross Perot's help, Clintoon won the erection. (I mean election.) After eight years of this trash, we were ready for Reagan again. So what was the closest thing to Reagan? The son of Reagan's VP! Now Bush43 turns out to be even less like Reagan than Bush41! There is only one hope -- gotta find the next Reagan. And it's not Jeb!
Bush is conjuring up a strawman and proceeding to bash it. American Patriotism is not a danger to this country, selling the country to the highest bidder is.
Right you are.
GEICO History - In the mid-1930s, Leo and Lillian Goodwin started what has become one of the most successful and highly respected companies in the nation -- the Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO).
"Bush is conjuring up a strawman and proceeding to bash it."
Sounds like somebody needs to lend W a copy of "How To Win Friends And Influence People."
Oh yeah, more name-calling, on top of all the recent nastiness and psychobabble ... yep, that'll fix it, lol.
Absolutely perfect and concise description!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Uh...GEICO is owned by Warren Buffett.
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