Posted on 11/03/2010 2:24:02 PM PDT by Starman417
How many times have you been watching a commercial for this or that medicine with images of a couple strolling through a bucolic meadow or scenes of a depressed woman who’s suddenly happy again only to be bombarded with a rapid-fire litany of potential side effects so scary that they would have kept Atilla the Hun from ever leaving the neighborhood.
And there are other examples. Credit card agreements come with pages of small type that takes a microscope to read. A contract for a house can be as thick as a phone book with language with all of the clarity of a dense fog. Then there is of course the 70,000 page tax code that God himself could not understand even if he had the help of the guy in charge of writing it (Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – Charlie Rangle) and the guy tasked with enforcing it (Treasury Secretary – Tim Geithner). As the former is under investigation for tax evasion and the latter didn’t pay his taxes for years, with both suggesting they misunderstood the code, you begin to understand how complex it is.
All of this is thanks to lawyers, lawsuits and plaintiffs seeking easy money or to impose their will on others. But mostly the lawyers – not the least of whom are the slip an fall type who are willing to use the courtroom to harass and extort money from companies both big and small. They are of course a big reason that health care is so expensive, as doctors feel the need to do a phalanx of unnecessary tests to protect themselves from malpractice suits. They are also the reason that thousands of communities around the country leveled their playgrounds and filled in their pools over the past two decades. They are the reason the Corps of Engineers had not strengthened the levees in New Orleans in 30 years despite the danger and the money having been allotted. They are also the reason that a wheelchair bound 80 year old grandmother is seen by the TSA as potentially an equally dangerous flyer as a 30 year old Muslim man traveling with no luggage.
A recent example of the damage lawyers (and their professional plaintiff accomplices) can do involves a wheelchair bound California man who sued Chipotle Mexican Grill because he could not see the ingredients being put into his burrito while standing customers could. He lost the case initially but won on appeal. The company spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending itself and faces potentially the same or more in costs associated with complying with the judge’s order.
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Elect no lawyer before his time, is my advice, and his time will come ten days after he assumes room temperature. At that point, he's perfectly positioned to represent a large segment of democrat voters.
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We elected a baptist minister in Michigan’s 7th district.
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison would beg to differ.
Lawyers like judges and politicians are exempt from law suits. You can sue a doctor or anyone else but those afore mentioned. Look at folks that have been sent to jail by lawyers for no representing them properly. Why are these folks immune to the law. That reeks of corruption to me. Make em and break em! They al lie and are paid to do it.
Oh, no they would not, not if they saw our current situation where the Federal government intrudes in everything from you toilet to your tonsils.
Their service took place when we were a Constitutional Republic with individual States members thereof, not a Federal Monarchy with independent States mere servants thereto.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and interpret the Constitution as it was when they served and there would be no conflict of interest.
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