Posted On: April 26, 2006, 7:19 pm CDT

Posted By: ThinkbeforeUspeak

Its extremely easy to sit there and criticize what you don't know. Regardless what you want to think, the state of Florida was better off with Poe rather than without. If Citizens had all of these policies from the beginning, the surcharges would be astronomical. For those of you who are insured through Citizens should know this firsthand. Its fine to not have any compassion for Mr. Poe but think about his intentions besides being profitable because lets face it - no matter who you are, you will always be in it for the money. Without Poe in the game, Citizen's deficit would be a lot more than what it is right now. People want to harp that something needs to change in the State of Florida insurance market but whenever someone really tries to change it and it fails, they are called pigs and greedy politicians. Do you honestly think that is a fair assessment? Poe went to great lengths to secure not only financial stability within the state but to help the state of florida overcome the insurance crisis. So before you agents sit there and call Mr. Poe pigs and a greedy politician, you guys are the ones mad because of the money aspect of this - so who is the pig now? The agent's livelihoods are not the only ones' at stake - lets have some compassion for the 300 employees that will need to look for a new job.