[Political Junkie Too]

"I tried for two years to sell crop insurance to orange farmers," said Bill Nielsen, an agent with Nielsen & Associates Insurance in Exeter.

So, freezes aren't considered "acts of nature" like floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes? How come most insurance providers exclude this stuff from homeowner insurance, but they're pushing it for farmers?

Freeze good, flood bad?

-PJ

[glorgau]

Up to half of their insurance costs is subsidized by the federal government,

Wow, so besides taxes - that everybody has to pay - what cut does the goverment of the profit?