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Not a fan of this show because it leans so far to the left it’s communist propaganda garbage but sometimes they do actually participate in journalism.
This one caught my attention.
Most insurance is a scam. The problem today is that most people, unless your home is paid off, are forced to buy insurance. When you have a nation full of people being forced to buy something, the price is going to be high and the service is going to suck. When I add up all the insurance I pay a year, home, auto, health, business, it is probably in the $50k a year range. I will never get that back out of the insurance company. I'm probably entering my last year that I'm going to be building and after I can drop the business insurance, which I'm forced to have by the licensing department, I will be looking at self insuring everything. I'm sure that means paying an attorney for some estate planning to have no personal assets, paying for concierge medicine, self insuring my vehicles, and no insurance on my house. In my lifetime, I would guess so far I have paid $200k-300k and have received at most $100k in payouts. That is mostly for overpriced medical stuff. Not to go into another tangent, but next time you have a procedure ask what the cash price is. You will find that the cash price will be in the range of your deductible. When you get the insurance bill, all the sudden that $5-10k procedure is $50-60k. Most people have 20% co pays plus their deductible. The insured person ends up paying more for the procedure than it really cost.
 

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I suppose pulling the master breaker and shutting the gas main is no guarantee.
Even if you shut down the master breaker, the main line coming into the house is still hot. So considering the salt water intrusion that could bridge across and short out the box causing fires. The power should have been shut down from the power company to the areas getting flooded prior to the storm surge.
 

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There was a shit load of structure fires here just from the storm surge areas my kid told me. He's in the FD here. Not sure on the cause.

the people we know with the apartment that flooded overlooked one surge protector, they started smelling smoke and found it before anything got out of hand. Most people just dont know to go throw their breaker in a house like mine it's outside and they can't get to it.
 

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the people we know with the apartment that flooded overlooked one surge protector, they started smelling smoke and found it before anything got out of hand. Most people just dont know to go throw their breaker in a house like mine it's outside and they can't get to it.
I still can't believe they used to put the panels outside.
 

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I still can't believe they used to put the panels outside.

my house was built in the early 80s, most of the neighborhood they're inside the garage. The utility box is in my back yard on the opposite side of the house so my panel is on the outside wall on that side of the house... cheap ****s
 

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my house was built in the early 80s, most of the neighborhood they're inside the garage. The utility box is in my back yard on the opposite side of the house so my panel is on the outside wall on that side of the house... cheap ****s
Is that just a main, or the panel with all the breakers?
 

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Most insurance is a scam. The problem today is that most people, unless your home is paid off, are forced to buy insurance. When you have a nation full of people being forced to buy something, the price is going to be high and the service is going to suck. When I add up all the insurance I pay a year, home, auto, health, business, it is probably in the $50k a year range. I will never get that back out of the insurance company. I'm probably entering my last year that I'm going to be building and after I can drop the business insurance, which I'm forced to have by the licensing department, I will be looking at self insuring everything. I'm sure that means paying an attorney for some estate planning to have no personal assets, paying for concierge medicine, self insuring my vehicles, and no insurance on my house. In my lifetime, I would guess so far I have paid $200k-300k and have received at most $100k in payouts. That is mostly for overpriced medical stuff. Not to go into another tangent, but next time you have a procedure ask what the cash price is. You will find that the cash price will be in the range of your deductible. When you get the insurance bill, all the sudden that $5-10k procedure is $50-60k. Most people have 20% co pays plus their deductible. The insured person ends up paying more for the procedure than it really cost.
I told someone on the job today that the insurance and pharmaceutical companies run this country.
 

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Two military bases in Georgia are under partial evacuation orders after Hurricane Helene knocked power and water out on both installations, damage which officials say could take at least a week to remedy. Commanders at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia and the Army’s Fort Eisenhower near Augusta, Georgia gave the go-ahead for thousands of troops to leave the region while power and water are widely out.
 

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I saw on the NY Post that they found bodies in the trees in Asheville? It freaking burns me how we can send billions to other countries and help them but not our local citizens shame on all these politicians hope they burn in hell

^this

Is fox the worst? You have to scroll down past 10 stories on p-diddy, 49ers rb injury, hezbollah, national parks, health myth, etc to get to the 11th story on T$ visiting devastation.

WTF has happened to our Republic?

 

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^this

Is fox the worst? You have to scroll down past 10 stories on p-diddy, 49ers rb injury, hezbollah, national parks, health myth, etc to get to the 11th story on T$ visiting devastation.

WTF has happened to our Republic?


It's being suppressed for Heels Up.

Helene’s cost could be 600 lives, $160B in damages​


 

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Biden stumbled through a read statement yesterday, so off the hook.
No. It’s all on camel-A now. Everything. If people still want to vote for her. Fine. Go down the toilet and keep flushing. It’s over.
If they cheat again and it’s obvious and nothing happens then we deserve to be flushed. We lost the Republic.
 

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^this

Is fox the worst? You have to scroll down past 10 stories on p-diddy, 49ers rb injury, hezbollah, national parks, health myth, etc to get to the 11th story on T$ visiting devastation.

WTF has happened to our Republic?

Exactly it's just mind boggling. What's happened to our Republic good ? Burn it down and start over empires don't last forever..
 

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