Ladies and gentlemen, won’t you please open your purses and wallets and contribute to the SEND A LAWYER TO PLUMBING SCHOOL FUND? Law school teaches them to be sh-t, but we’ll teach them how to flush that sh-t down the drain. Save another good kid from a life of avarice and bickering.
Next time you are astounded by the cost of Granny’s medications, remember how much of that cost goes to trial lawyers, like the ones that advertise on TV...”Have you suffered injury or death because of (place the name of the STILL PRESCRIBED medication or medical appliance here), then call Goofball& Ripoff, and WE will see if YOU are entitled to financial payment”.
They are also some of the most unhappiest, and rude, people I have encountered. Not all trial lawyers are jerks, of course. No profession is monolithic - there are nice people who are lawyers, and mean people who are church pastors. But, the bell curve for lawyers is more towards the side of liberal, Democrat, predatory, greedy, confrontational, hostile, argumentative, and conniving.
Last weekend, one of these rich lawyers (who I don't know personally, but I know who he is) was ahead of me in line at Starbucks. The kid working there has Down Syndrome. He is a hard worker, and has been at the Starbucks for over 2 years.
The lawyer's coffee order was messed up (or at least the lawyer thought it was). He screamed at the employee, who just stood there stunned. Then, the lawyer caught his temper, realized he was making a scene, and gave it the "OK...just give me THIS...no problem.....OK!?!!?"
While waiting for his cup of whatever, all ticked off at the world, I got out of line, stood between him and the counter, and glared at our wonderful citizen attorney.
His look shot back anger, and I starred right back.
He then ignored me, but I got my point across. He never said another word, to anyone. He got his cup of coffee and ran out.
The lawyers who give Zillions to Democrats and make everything for all us more expensive, from health care to automobiles to the food we buy - are a blight. They are parasites.
It's high time they be put in their place.
Then I'll file suit against the the law firms that sponsor these ads to pay for my anger management therapy. "...call 1-800-BAD-DRUG now to find out how much you might winn....err.. be eligible to collect!!!"
...and in Florida they just opened a 12th law school!!!
12 law schools in FL!
This kind of suit is not always useless or harmful but the 1 good apple (no pun intended) is tainted by the 99 bad ones.
I turned down a proposal that I enter a class action settlement against a former employer (a contract house based in California) which alleged that “according to records” I had been offered a vacation plan and then never got compensated for “unused vacation” when my contract ended according to my state law. It was a fair piece of change I’d get... “up to $1000 and something.” While I am not well off now and that might be a welcome windfall, I could not do it in good conscience because I do not have any recollection of the premises of the lawsuit ever being true in my case! I wasn’t offered a vacation plan. I know I was offered some things because a health plan was part of it (and I signed up for that) but not a vacation plan. It wasn’t needed for the kind of work I had — if I had to be off, I worked that out with the company that contracted with my contractor and simply didn’t get paid for that time (and the company didn’t get billed, either), or made the time up later that week when possible. I couldn’t pull this kind of cr@p on the contract house in good conscience and I knew it.
Everyone is missing the most amazing part here: This is the 9th Circuit. Yes..... The 9th freakin' circuit.
Healthcare costs. What percentage to pay for insurance against trial layers?
Two things that would help curb the scumbag lawyers:
Of course, neither of these concepts will even get a fair hearing, as the lawyers make our laws, interpret our laws, and judge our laws. No matter what part of the constitution the lawyers uphold, they turn a blind eye to those parts their brethren are actively undermining.