Gov. Blanco wants to refund $192 million to homeowners in LA, all of whom paid a 15% surcharge on their insurance bills in order to help bail out the state Citizens' insurance plan or whatever they call it. The state is also trying to figure out how to keep the program solvent, seeing as how it's needed since the cold-hearted scum-of-the-earth, greedy, spineless big insurance companies have bailed out on us. Per Blanco and State Treasurer Kennedy, we need about $1 billion to keep the insurance program afloat until about 2016 or so. Kennedy said on Garland's show yesterday, if I heard correctly, that if we don't find the $1 billion dollars, homeowners will have to pay a 3.5% surcharge on their insurance next year, and the surcharge will go up 7% each year after that for the next 19 years.
Did anyone else hear this or is it just me? Because if it's true, why the hell would she use nearly $200 million from a projected surplus to refund us instead of using it towards the one billion dollars the State needs to keep the program afloat?
Surely, it has nothing to do with her being up for re-election next year. Can someone tell me I'm imagining this?
"I'm not going to try to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it, and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance and spirit of south Louisiana in words...IT JUST IS WHAT IT IS." -Chris Rose, N.O. Times-Picayune, 8/29/06
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Hanging on for Dear Life: Katrina Survivors" Daily Struggle to Live
- The representative of the neighborhood "Lakeview" (an upper middle class mostly white neighborhood of NOLA) just told a story that will stay with me for the rest of my life. She told the story of 2 volunteers from Boston, a mother and a 9 year old daughter. After a week of working, the daughter turned to the mother and asked her when they would be returning to America. The lady representative broke down into tears and asked the senate panel the same question. When will we be returning to America?
- 2005 homeowners insurance: $1926... 2006 homeowners insurance: $2343... 2007 homeowners insurance bill: $4599
- That ain't shit. 2005 Farmers: $2400 / 2006 Farmers: $4000 / 2007 Farmers: $11,000
- "I hope the levees break again and kill you."
- The average cost for a 2,000-square-foot home has jumped, probably, to the $80,000 range just for foundation work
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