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Originally Posted by jump4
Insurers altered adjusters' reports; slashed Hurricane Ian payouts far below damage estimates. 
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Are we shocked at such dishonesty ? Mission control, we have a LOT Of serious problems. Some of you are probably very familiar with Herman Wouk's works. I think of the gathering storm; the period before WW2, before our U.S. involvement. So many factors in addition to the ones most often listed in history books. Age has advantages and disadvantages; as I look around today, a bank failure (1, or perhaps more to come ?), a history of government (that's US folks, not some vague entity with very deep pockets), when insurance companies, auto companies, medicine, becomes inextricably entwined with "government", when strange bed fellows become BFF's, and the leader of a country in a serious war goes on a Hollywood style tour and even wants to participate in the Oscars, when we are even uncertain if defending our national boarders is a matter of debate, and all that we have previously gained in race relations through the turbulent years seems to be sliding backwards at an alarming rate, when people openly, and sometimes even violently protest the very existence of both police and jails... ALL of these and more not mentioned here, make me thing about the SIGNS of the "gathering storm"... yet so few of the people we elect to lead us, from local to national, seem to have a grasp of leadership... kind of "blow with the wind". Not good. Voting takes a LOT of home work, much of it not easy ! Looking up the record of judgments of every judge to be voted on to "retain", is not an easy task. Checking out every name on a ballot to determine if their words have met their stated philosophy, morality, and goals, is NOT an easy task. Maybe we should teach a more in-depth understanding of what a responsible voter must do to be prepared. Perhaps this should not be something only mentioned in 5th grade once, again in 8th grade civics once ? Later on, in high school, assignments to do in depth research on a public figure (choose a judge, state's attorney, a president, or member of congress, presently in office, and write a research paper comparing and contrasting their stated beliefs and philosophy, with their actions in office. Some times these types of contracts are just too vague to our students. Students are usually just "taught" about the "right to vote", not much follow up or actual assignments.