Insurance Companies Are Evil

New Orleans is still having issues of rebuilding. There is a major problem with the rebuilding effort. People do not have money. When a tornado went through nearby towns here, insurance covered the costs to rebuild. In the Katrina areas there are no contractors. There is no money.

Allstate and State Farm among other insurance companies are denying people's claims for mostly one reason. The people in Bay St. Louis had hurricane insurance and not flood insurance. So the water caused by the Hurricane is not covered by hurricane insurance.

Allstate and State Farm - Shame, Shame, Shame.

Additions to MacIke's Slap List

• State Farm insurance

• Allstate "The bad hands people"



tags: insurance, katrina, evil

City of New Orleans and Katrina

It has been 8 months since Katrina.

I have returned from the city. What devastation there is in the city.

We spent a week there with 50 people doing work for a week and it seems like a bucket of water in the ocean.

I am still of the opinion of just trash the whole city in a giant fire.

After a week of Katrina help, I think it would be easier to lose everything in a fire rather then a flood.

One odd comment that happened several times from differing people in differing situations:
The government was useless. If it were not for the churches New Orleans would be off the map.


Oh yeah many kudos to wally world. Wal-Mart opened the parking lots to relief work and have not reopened.

The City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans
by Steve Goodman

Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.

CHORUS

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

©1970, 1971 EMI U Catalogue, Inc and Turnpike Tom Music (ASCAP)