by 1997, prince william had watched his parent s marriage dissolve in divorce. and buried his mother after a fatal car crash. he was just 15 years old. to lose his mother at such an important stage in his life, he was an adolescent, a boy going into manhood, and not to have his mother there is a loss he ll feel forever. he would have to come of age without her. and as william returned to eaton, the windsors assumed greater control. eaton is located directly across from windsor castle. it s walking distance. so granny could keep her eye on william at eaton, and she did. so he had a sense of responsibility, always has. for william, he changed too with the death of his mother.
to take care of consumers. let me make sure i m clear here. when we saw situations in sandy and areas in flood plains, there are federal programs that act as sort of backstops and guarantees. what you re operating there with in moore is the private insurance market, right? we re not dealing with state or federal programs that have these folks insured because of the heightened risk for tornado. absolutely. in oklahoma we strongly believe in market competition for companies and for consumers to be able to make that best choice to let their feet do the walking with insurance companies to put them in greater control. we re proud of that aspect. behind the scenes we re very proud if we re watching the financial solvency of companies, the oklahoma property and casualty fund is backstop for oklahoma consumers and they ve been there a long time and they ve done a good job for companies that might become insolvent. again, we believe in free market
act as sort of backstops and guarantees. what you re operating there with in moore is the private insurance market, right? we re not dealing with state or federal programs that have these folks insured because of the heightened risk for tornado. absolutely. in oklahoma we strongly believe in market competition for companies and for consumers to be able to make that best choice to let their feet do the walking with insurance companies to put them in greater control. we re proud of that aspect. behind the scenes we re very proud if we re watching the financial solvency of companies, the oklahoma property and casualty fund is backstop for oklahoma consumers and they ve been there a long time and they ve done a good job for companies that might become insolvent. again, we believe in free market competition and the insurance companies that do business in the state of oklahoma really when they are competing for business for oklahomans on events like this, we know it s not a matter of if bu
what you re operating with there in moore is essentially the private insurance market, right? we re not dealing with state or federal programs that have these folks insured because of the heightened risk for tornado. absolutely. in oklahoma we strongly believe in market competition for companies and for consumers to be able to make that best choice to kind of let their feet do the walking with insurance companies to put them in greater control. we re very proud of that aspect. behind the scenes we re very proud of, you know, if we re watching the financial solvency of companies, the oklahoma property and casualty guarantee fund really stands as a backstop for oklahoma consumers. and they ve been there a long time. and they ve done a very good job for companies that might possibly become insolvent. but again, we believe in free market competition, and the insurance companies that do business in the state of oklahoma really when they re competing for business for oklahomans on events l
companies. versus the question, greater control, over the economy. and, people were asked, is that a good idea? should there be stricter regulation and 61% said yes. and 31% said no and when asked, whether the government should play more of a role, essentially have more control, over the economy, you come up with a different set of numbers. i wonder if we can get those up on the screen now. 40% say good idea. to have more government control and 51% say bad idea right now. this is the problem, the president faces in trying to sell his financial regulation package. and americans want clear-cut rules, that people in business an enterprise can abide by and what they don t want is a lot of government bureaucrats muddling around and distrust, for example, i suspect there will be a lot of distrust of the idea of having the nine member committee headed by the secretary of treasury that gets to take over financial institutions whenever it wants to. i think there is probably going to be some