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You are right Brian Jeremiah. I don't have anything that someone would want to win in a law suit, unless they wanted my 2-dogs, 2-cats, 15-canaries, and 12-chickens.
I do have a house and two vehicles, and the clothes on my back. I may not have much but I have no debt, zero-zipo zilch (except for my mortgage on my house), and I'll have that paid for in about 13 years.

I guess I get worked up over hearing about things that people get sued for that absolutely defy simple logic and common sense.

Maybe my statement about "living in a tent" is a hint into my subconsious mind about myself and wishing life in general could somehow be so much simpler, like in the old days (I guess?)

But of course reality always comes back at 5:30 am every morning when the alarm clock sounds off.

Opportunity clock! Everyday is a new opportunity and the buzz of your opportunity clock means great things can happen.

Yes, good things can happen. But usually not until after coffee!

Hello all,
I had a meeting with the local BBB today. The first thing they told me was the BBB was created in 1905, or sometime around there, to let business govern its self. The folks who started it wanted to keep government out of their business by having a place that handles complaints and watches over its self .
Yall might want to think about talking to the BBB and getting some ideas on self policeing. this may be a valid argument to the Texas government to leave us alone.
Just a thought.

In the recent past there were attempts by the RV park folks to pass national, and then state, laws that would force everyone to use only commercial parks. Even doing away with all parking on public land or in aunt Millies driveway. Yes, this meant national parks, state parks, etc etc. All campgrounds would have to be closed or sold. Even yellowstone and Yosemite.

I remember the state senator from Montana begging us to stop sending emails and faxes as the bill had been killed in committee. I think the same approach could be used here. Inundating the sponsors of bills with this sort of thing would make them think about what they are doing.

As for the NWRA, when I joined them in about 2000 for a year I read that they were interested in working with government to formulate regulations of our business. I fully agree that self regulation is the way to go, and to have the organization the supposedly represents us working with regulators to control and tax us just rubs me the wrong way.

Perhaps we should check out the BBB in each of our areas to see what might be accomplished through them.

Has anyone heard anything lately about this? :eusa_thin

I wrote Senator Armbrister with some questions and suggestions for re-write. I haven't heard anything back from him - and really don't expect anything until they finish re-write. But, I called the Business & Commerce office this morning and left a message for a call beack.

Dale...

Received an automated e-mail today stating that there is going to be a public hearing. But, no date was set. The on-line draft doesn't appear to have been updated with any changes. More as I hear from them.

Dale...

The gist of the whole thing seems to be eliminating the hackers from the business. There is a good indication that replacement folks may have a hand in this also.

The insurance industry feels a slight pinch in their profits due to the cheap repair folks that pop out of no where. By eliminating the deductible--they think that they have a handle on the fraud.

And then there are the honest folks that are excellent repair techs who suffer because of the techniques employed by the insurance companies and the replacement owners.......like cutting off the hand to eliminate the hang nail.

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