Posted On: January 14, 2008, 9:08 am CST

Posted By: wudchuck

like any business whether small or not, that company is striving to make a profit and grow. they then pass either the savings back to the consumer or put it back into their pockets for later expenses. i work for a company that tries to keep a 4% profit, but when mother nature is being a blessing, that profit can definately increase. if the claims filed are less frequent, again, increase of profit. the company also uses old funds (money available but not for solvency of claims), is invested into the market allowing the company to make some more money to pay for expenses. we are so focuses in today's society we forget the businesses are supposed to bring profit. that enables companies to hire, expand, provide higher wages, etc - which in turn creates a better economy. now if you really want to look at things differently, let's take a look at a different industry.

oil: whose making money here? the oil guru's in the mideast and the big companies here stateside. we allow them to keep upping the ante of the oil and that transfers back to the gas. so we pay more at the pump and they get awfully richer. nothing stopped them. if you own a vehicle or take public transportation, you need a form of gasoline.

power: most of us can only take it from the local source. run by your local power company in-line with a contract with the local government. is there competition in this? no! why? there is no way to create a separate power into the city for each and every house - so a monopoly! oops - sounds like that is against the anti-trust law! afterall, is that we wound up doing with the telephone? now there is a way to give folks a choice there. funny, don't they all use the same phone line?

government: why is it that we all blame Bush and Chaney? i think most of you forgotten that we need to look at the local government and then the current us house of rep and senators. most of them have been in office for a long time. in our current business, it has been made that you have to retire after the age of 62 (if memory serves me correctly). yet, if you look into the congress, how many are actually older? how many of them really know the current generation? how many of them can forsee the future? so, why do they want to know about steroid use within BASEBALL? baseball is not a national security risk. it is a company of its own and is trying to regulate itself. baseball is a sport - the congress needs to look at what it can do to help our fellow americans - baseball is entertainment!

finally, remember that one bad apple does not mean that the bushel is bad. i noticed on several earlier blogs, state farm is mentioned. remember the same goes for drivers as well, if one driver is reckless, does that mean we all are? NO! same thing when it comes to companies. same goes for the US Government - it starts locally and goes up.