Category Archives: elections

10.17.12
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The debates and insurance advertising

No, I did not invest two hours of my life in watching the debates.  Nor do I pay particular attention to anything that cannot bring actual value(by my definition) to my life.  For those that do, great.  I am happy you enjoy the entertainment that they provide.  So what do the debates remind you of?

1. Two fairly rude men who like to hear themselves talk

2. Two people that if they had any sort of actual, measurable, factual results over the last four years would not need to fight for time

3. Two people that collectively have spent so much money pandering to an audience just so their “party” can control a country rather than helping the very people they are supposed to serve.

That being said, yes I can correlate just about anything to insurance.  In this case, it is very easy.  Companies are always talking to you and rarely with you.  Whether in print, digital, radio or T.V, etc. they are telling you what they think you want to hear; ” We have so many discounts…” ” Combine and save…” “People saved $472 by switching…” They literally spend Billions of dollars pushing to you and not teaching you anything about insurance.  Not providing any insurance facts. Why?  Because for some reason hiding facts are easier for them?  Because if you knew what to look for and how to buy insurance they may have to improve as a company?  Because they are afraid that they do not do enough good so if they stopped advertising you would forget them.

Aw well, you always have the option of choosing the human being whom you like to work with.  Either way, just some thoughts thanks for reading.

10.07.12
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If you do what you promise do you need to pay to get re-elected?

I cannot help but wonder how much money is spent by politicians to get re-elected.  Now I understand when you are getting elected, like starting a business, you need to let people know who you are, your plan, etc.  Your past and reputation can only get you so far.  But getting re-elected is a completely different scenario, or should it be?

So you get elected and you spend your term in office learning and supposedly doing what you set out to do.  So if you set out to say lower taxes and you lower taxes getting re-elected should be pretty easy.  I figure if you keep to your plan, do what you promised to do and keep up with your constituents(customers) you should be fine.  This could be completely naive but seems logical.  Heck there are hundreds if not thousands of successful businesses operating this way all around the country.  Yet instead many politicians spend tons of money to get re-elected even though they did not do what they set out to do.  Rather than doing what they promised and keeping up with their people, which should get them re-elected, instead they try and get re-elected versus earning it.  Not that I will go look this up but I cannot help but wonder how much more you have to spend when you don’t do your job versus if you had a good term.

Voting is a lot like buying things, when all else fails you buy from people you like.  But what if the people fail to deliver?  They spend money, not much different than really big companies spending a lot of money to cover up what they are really doing.  Such a shame, a lot of money is spent to campaign and not enough is spent to actually serve the constituents(customers).  To be continued…

Just a thought, thanks for reading.