Years and years ago, I saw a stat in the Wall Street Journal that has always stuck with me-- that in America, we graduated 10 lawyers for every engineer, and in Japan and Germany, the reverse was true. Not to drag this post far off-topic, but we really need tort reform in America- switching to the British "loser pays" system for lawsuits would be a good start...
( Like that old joke- "What do you call a thousand lawyers drowned in the depths of the sea?" "A good start...")
And just so no-one misunderstands, even honest people need a lawyer at times, and even the guilty are entitled to defense- I'm just saying that we are over-lawed, over-taxed, and over-regulated nearly to death.
Amen! :)