PUBLIC GETS THE SHAFT FROM AUTO INSURERS

Saturday's Woolwich Observer carrys this opinion from Editor Steve Kannon "Liberals back NDP auto insurance plan; benefits remain to be seen". According to Steve "We're all overpaying for car insurance, though the industry would have you believe otherwise.". Holy Crap Steve. Are you actually saying that private business would out and out lie to their customers? Is nothing sacred anymore? Steve also suggests that it is "...another step by insurance companies to reduce coverage while continuing to boost rates.". Man so they are actually try to screw us from both ends? Allegedly auto insurance fraud is a big problem in Ontario. Finance Minister Charles Sousa is at least partly buying into that when he suggests "We will crack down on fraud, make roads safer...". Well right off the bat, I can smell the bullshit. The only way to make roads safer is to remove the idiots from them. Notice I say idiots not speeders. You can't drive for five minutes anymore without seeing drivers texting, phoning, lollygagging, turning without signaling and just basically driving with their heads up their butts. And our police do NOTHING! They're much too concerned with speed ticket revenue. The really awful drivers literally just lurch along blocking, delaying and sowing confusion wherever they go; all the while so proud of themselves for being "careful". Their incompetence and lack of sole focus on what they are doing (driving) is way beyond them. And our police do NOTHING!

Meanwhile in Ontario we pay more than the rest of Canada for insurance premiums while receiving less and less. The insurance idustry have clout but apparently they too are more focused on speeders and drinkers and haven't pressured the police to clean up the lazy and incompetent drivers out there who cost us all in the long run.