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A very good thing happened here in Florida yesterday.
Homeowners insurance rates were rolled back as well as
Citizen's insurance rates saw revamping as well.
It all came about in Florida because ordinary people like you and I got on their computers, wrote letters by hand, called, alerted the TV news
to talk about how they felt about the issue. At the end a few even got out there to demonstrate to apply public pressure and opinion upon our law makers.

We were adamant about having to take the abusiveness of an unfair fifty one percent rate hike that was approved by the same law makers and metered out by insurance companys after three hurricanes wrought their havoc and disaster upon us. An added boost came when the homestead exemption was raised as well.

The power and the voice of the people as well as our new Governor, Charlie Crist who kept his campaign promises wrote a new page in the law books that will see that the insurance companys finally become regulated here in this state.

It all came about by a lot of people becoming proactive within their
government. Change happens folks. Its not in the realm of dreams.
Nor does it come about by sitting around and whining and doing nothing with one's hands and voice.

Positive change happens when people refused to be ignored by their leaders and when they finally get tired of being pushed around and stepped upon by big corporations. Its all about demanding and commanding a little respect.

Apathy is a psychic virus that spreads from person to person. Its a condition that arises when one sees and thinks that no one is really paying attention. It arises from a basic lack of educating oneself about the due process of government. It happens when everyone makes the fatal mistake of keeping silent when they should be raising their voices to be heard.

My personal campaign began months ago when my wife received that letter from her insuror telling her that they were canceling her policy in August of next year. I wrote the then Attorney General Charley Crist, Governor Bush, the insurance regulatory board and I called channel nine TV as well as E mailing them about my concerns about unfair insurance rate hikes that were affecting old folks and disabled people here in Florida and other parts of the nation who had experienced their share of natural disasters. Channel nine set up an appointment to interview my wife and I and I received responses from the Governor, the Attorney General, two of my District Representatives, as well as a response from the insurance regulatory board in Tallahassee, Florida.
I set up three blogs to get my point of view seen by whom ever would read them. (Review them here on my blog). In essence, the word got out. Before that no one had brought up the proposed homeowner's insurance rate hikes as a campaign issue. Once our TV interview was aired then it finally became fuel that spurred political dialogue within the political runoffs.

So, If you think our air quality is poor and affecting our planet,
if you think that your children's education is lacking and can be made better, if you think that war - any war is bad policy get out there and become proactive. Sign petitions, set up petitions online, write letters, call, send E mails begin your process for positive change in this country as well as within your states.

A very loud message was sent out to the juggernaught insurance corporations yesterday. Now you, the people who have been watching what would happen here in Florida have to act accordingly.
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi should be next.

Spread the word people. Change happens.
There are still issues within our state in regard to homeowner's insurance that need to be addressed and refined...It isn't over yet...
Get on it people!


Thanks,

John Ayes

Our lives are filled to the point of overflowing with expectations.
Our first experience with expectation happened when we were born.
The first thing doctors look for is that we were created within the wombs of our mothers with a fair amount of perfection. They look to see that we have two eyes, a nose, a mouth, two ears, ten fingers, ten toes; that all our body parts are in their correct place and in good working order.

As time progresses more expectations are passed and heaped upon us.
We are expected to fall into a sleep cycle that is reasonable. We are expected to learn the fine art of using a spoon and a fork, language so we can communicate our needs and our own expectations. We soon learn that some of our childhood expectations don't fit into the prescribed way of life and we are taught the right expectations in their turn. Later we are expected to maintain above average grades throughout our school careers. Then we are expected to marry the right person, buy a home, a car or two and to have grass on our lawns.

Throughout the process we - our true nature essence has been shut down. Broken in essence to conform to someone else's idea of what is right and wrong.

I think the root of all our illnesses arise because we have been expected to conform to manufactured roles and ideals that run totally against nature's laws. When the fad is in our women are expected to become anorexic and too thin. You are either too fat and not skinny enough. On the other hand, when the fad finally swings the other way our women are expected to be more shapelier and fatter. Skinny is now out. Women and young girls have died in the name of fads that come and go. They are also ruining their feet by wearing heels that place their bodies in a most unnatural position. All in the name of illogical expectations that will make some clown very rich up the line of high fashion.

Nature's requirements are very simple and to the point. It demands that we survive and propagate and work within her set laws.
Don't pollute the water that gives you life and keeps you hydrated.
Don't pollute the land you grow your food in.
Don't over populate because you will deplete your resources.
Don't pollute the air that you have to breathe into your lungs because it gives you life force and the energy to sustain your body. If you do, then your climate will change drastically and you will suffer in the end.
Take care of your body its the only real tool that is worthwhile that will enable your survival.
Don't overstress it or it will become weak and age before its time.
Live and let live which means live at peace with one another. Otherwise wars will happen and people will lose their most precious resource.
Life and living.

Everyone of our expectations seem to run counter productive to the laws of nature and the planet we live upon.

World governments and the laws they have passed are another form of expectation that we have to spend the rest of our lives fulfilling.

It is said that the first written laws had their origins in Persia in a place called Babylon. But before then there were the unwritten laws of the expectations of the tribe that our ancestors were expected to fulfill.
Without laws there would be total complete - uncompromising anarchy and life would be very miserable and dangerous.

It makes one wonder if there were ever a time when humanity lived in an environment that could be truly called Utopian.

There might have been little pockets of villages and civilizations whose inhabitants had worked together to realize a dim shadow of what we call utopia. Those happenings within our historical resume have been called,
"golden ages", the ideal is carried forward that people worked together on behalf of one another to maintain an uneasy peace throughout the land. But the truth is that all our golden ages happened because there was one man who had a vision who went out to conquer his neighbors who were bickering and warring amongst themselves over land, territorial rights and feudalistic kingship's. The trouble makers were speedily dispatched and their heads set upon stakes for all to see.
It was always about one man who set out to fight the eternal war that brought about a unification of a country and its golden age.

It makes one wonder why it always has to be that way. That our elusive peace on earth always has to be so uneasy - so unattainable. Humanity must be flawed in some way genetically because we just can't seem to get it right. We just can't seem to respect one another's beliefs and right to choose for themselves the way of life that is best for them. Until we do our civilizations rise and are always doomed to fall.

So, when I look at my own life closely I see that it has been filled with expectations that have molded the way I think act and respond within my society and personal life. I in turn have carried the burden of an abstracted form and version of the greater expectation and have also passed them onto my children.

I've also learned that expectation isn't something that is written in stone except for the laws that we have to follow like not killing , stealing from one another or coveting our neighbor's wife. The other basic laws fall into place by way of common sense living. Expectations are very modifiable and very flexible and open to change. Each successive generation in our history around the world has modified them in some way because some of those old expectations were unreasonable in the eyes of the youth.

I can remember a time in my youth when I told myself I wasn't going to raise my children the way my parents were raising me.

Old age is a constant struggle against calcification of arteries, joints, brains and flesh. The older we all become the more resistant we become against positive change happening and coming into our lives.
When and if we take the time to look back upon our history we will find that youth has always been our saving grace.

It was youth that rose up against the stagnant feudalism of our forefathers. It was youth that dethroned and did away with the stifling ways of inbred and mad monarchy. It is vibrant and not so foolish youth that dreams of the Utopian life of a world free of strife and need. Youth rebels when positive change is stifled and becomes too calcified.

I often sit and wonder why we elect old people who run for office and make our laws.

When our social environment becomes stifling - false - full of hypocrisy it is no longer working. It is our youth who begin to rebel against everything we stand for and cherish. It is then that we all must seek to change societal calcification. When our relationships with our children aren't working anymore then its time to re access for a moment what has been going wrong in our lives. Its time to take a hard look at the examples we have been setting. Its time to begin questioning the merits of the type of world we are leaving them.

Ask yourself these questions:

Have we created a positive environment that is within balance ecologically, morally, spiritually and ethically?

Have we set a good example to our children in maintaining a global peace?

Are we leaving them a world that can be built upon to maintain a wholesome way of life that is free of hopelessness and strife.

Have you noticed something? My questions are all within the realm of the Global.

Give me your feedback here. Try to keep away from home bound issues.
Try to think globally.Keep in mind the self imposed limitations you have placed upon yourself because of expectations that have been passed onto you by others in your life.

I also want you to meditate deeply on the expectations you are passing onto your children. For once, don't fall back on your religious beliefs or political beliefs. By all means bypass them to tap into your instinctual base core. Because deep down that's who you really are.

Think about why is it that we all have to wait until our lives are threatened and we face losing all we know before we work actively to bring about positive change in our lives.

Think about why we can't get along with one another globally. Think about the reasons why and what we feel justify those reasons.
Are they really valid?
What needs to be changed to make it all work?