Saturday, January 9, 2010

Dead peasants = dead presidents?


This just sounds wrong.

Doesn't it?





You could end up a 'dead peasant'
By L.M. Sixel - Houston Chronicle

HOUSTON — Irma Johnson never really thought of herself as a crusader.

But the quiet widow from The Woodlands has been featured in a Michael Moore movie, watched her story retold on “Good Morning America” and is trying to let others know that their employers may have purchased secret insurance policies on their lives and stand to profit handsomely when they die.

The industry darkly refers to the policies as “dead peasant” life insurance.

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