29 May 08 Two Became One
First there were two, then two become one. The Grace Memorial bridge, opened in 1929, cost $6 million; the Silas N. Pearman Bridge, opened in 1966, cost $15 million, and the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge, opened in 2005, cost $700 million.
Tags: 6 million, arthur, Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge, bridges, charleston, cooper river, grace memorial bridge, John P Grace Memorial Bridge, lowcountry, mount pleassant, river crossing, Silas N Pearman Bridge
18 Dec 07 Neo-Libs Label Ron Paul Money Bomb “Abject Failure”
Neo-liberal establishment wannabe e-rag Wonkette and its sycophantic bloggers have dismissed the 2007 Tea Party fundraising event, which set a new campaign record by hauling in a record $6.6 million dollars for Ron Pauls presidential run, as an “abject failure”. What a bunch of sulking sorry asses they are.
Tags: 6 million, abject failure, bloggers, liberal establishment, million dollars, party fundraising event, ron paul, sorry asses, tea party, wonkette
01 Dec 07 Licensed Bandits
In 1992, US Insurance companies collected $20.5 billion in premiums and reported a pretax loss of $11.8 billion on home insurance, not counting earnings from investments, according to A. M. Best, an insurance rating agency. In 2005, the home insurers took in $52.2 billion in premiums and reported a pretax loss of $643.6 million; losses had been cut to a sliver of sales. In 2005, with investment earnings of $1.9 billion, the home insurers had a net gain, before taxes, of $1.3 billion.
One measure of the new efficiency of the home insurance business is its ratio of claims expenses to premiums. In the year of Hurricane Andrew, the industry paid out $1.27 for every dollar of premium it collected. In 2005, the year of the more destructive Hurricane Katrina, the insurers paid out 71.50 cents for every dollar of premium.
Still they whine, that they can’t afford to offer coverage at all in many areas, and the deductibles get higher and higher. Insurance companies simply suck.
Tags: 50 cents, 6 million, deductibles, destructive hurricane, efficiency, home insurance, home insurers, hurricane andrew, hurricane katrina, insurance business, insurance companies, insurance rating, investment earnings, investments, losses, premiums, pretax loss, sliver, whine
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