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Again I am forced to defend the American way from the whiners. Maybe if some of you ever visited foreign countries you'd have your eyes opened. Ever wonder why when you cross the street with your children people stop their cars to let you cross? It ain't that way everywhere. Ever walk along a sidewalk with the manhole covers missing or open even at night? Doesn't happen too often over here in the US. Ever go skiing down a mountain and realize they have a two foot high pipe running perpendicular to the ground across half the trail? Thankfully they'd be out of business over here in the land of lawyers. Ever say to yourself, I sure wish they would restart production of the ford pinto I had when I was young, so I could get one for my son/daughter to learn to drive with? Ever wish for the good old days when a doctor would reuse hypodermic needles to save a little cash and lower your bill? Ever drive through the rockies and wish they would remove those costly road barriers that prevent you from going over the side? Ever wish your children could go play in the abandoned decaying house down the street, if only they would remove those pesky signs and fences, or maybe down by the railroad tracks so they could put pennies in front of the expres train to see how mashed they get? Ever wonder why your insurance rates haven't gone down, even though they put a cap on how much you can sue for? Ever wonder why that nice doctor got sued just because he accidentally killed your mother when she went to get her ingrown toenail removed? Its not like he meant it? Ever wonder why you hear about the old lady with the Mc Donalds coffee who won her case 10 years after it happened but you never hear about the doctor who cut opff the wrong leg or the factory that explodes and kills a smalltown for more then ten minutes? Suck it up people, you take the good with the bad. Millions of people and businesses manage to turn a considerable profit in this country everyday in spite of the lawyers. Any time Allstate wants to leave the insurance field for greener fields they are free to do so. Asking that my doctor actually knows what he is doing when he injects me with some drug doesn't seem like too much to ask. There may be some problems but as they say, you don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Anyone ever think to ask what you have gained because of lawsuits?

Again I am forced to defend the American way from the whiners.

Given the destruction to this country that bogus litigation has caused and continues to cause, I would hardly call it "whining."

Maybe if some of you ever visited foreign countries you'd have your eyes opened.

Well, to set the record straight, I've been to 20 or so, from the finest cities in europe to 5th world S$%^tholes, so don't go there.

Ever wonder why when you cross the street with your children people stop their cars to let you cross? It ain't that way everywhere.

You're correct, but not because of scummy shakedown lawyers. Try "rule of law"; in many of those countries that will run you down, they throw you in jail and if your family won't feed you during your time, thems the breaks. No club med for those boys, let me tell you.

Ever walk along a sidewalk with the manhole covers missing or open even at night?

Yeah. And if I were to fall in, the very last thing that would go through my mind is that I just won the fricking lottery by suing the state. S&^t happens, and then you die. No guarantees. When *I* go walking around at night, I take a flashlight, and watch where the hell I'm going. The biggest and most egregious abuses of our system occur precisely because our country has forgotten the principle of INTENT. This means nothing anymore. Even *if* these manhole (sorry, maintenance access covers) were removed on purpose, the punk kid that did it hasn't got any money, so let's just sue the maker, the city, and the candlestick maker.

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Anyone ever think to ask what you have gained because of lawsuits

Yes, all the time, and it's a shame. Given that I have been overseas, I'm often asked if we have lost our mind. They hear our bullshit lawsuits and find it absolutely insane. We now have a helmet wearing four cylinder driving limp wristed politically "correct" populace who actually buy stuff that says "Do not Eat Frozen Pizza" and "Warning -- Cape Does Not Enable User To Fly" and feel that anything and everything bad that might happen is carte blanche to a free ride at the expense of taxpayers and consumers. We all pay to subsidize a bunch of crooked lawyers.

I would gladly and immediately trade in every bit of the "gain" to be free of this litigiousness.

(As for skiing in foreign countries, I'll take European skiing anytime--and I do. They don't close the slopes at 3 p.m. so they can groom them for fear of lawsuits.

You don't have attendants everywhere--to help you onto the lift etc.--which also serve as reminders that in America lawsuits are ubiquitous and inescapable.

And if you accidently collide with someone in Europe, the first thing you think is, "This is Europe; we don't have to worry about lawsuits."

You're on your own, all right. You have to be an adult. Skiing originated in Europe. It's been going on there for a long, long time.

And when you stop for lunch, somebody invariably brings up the subject of lawsuits in America: "Everybody's suing everybody else! All the time! How do you people stand it? Why do you put up with it?"

"It's insane," you reply. "I hate it."

The feeling of freedom, freedom from the oppressive, mercenary, litigious society! It's like dreaming of liberty whey you don't have it.)