tomorrow, it would be a good start.
DU and the (Liberal) Lawyer Assoc., are gonna love this thread.
Posted on 02/06/2011 7:56:02 PM PST by Hojczyk
I'm neither shocked nor offended, but I do think that there's a real problem with America's current legal environment, and I think that we're in pretty much the same situation as Greece: If we want the kind of economic growth it's going to take to get us out of our current economic and indebtedness crisis, we're going to have to drastically reduce the number of laws and regulations confronting new and existing businesses.
That's hard to do piecemeal - hence the term "Demosclerosis." In his book, "The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities," economist Mancur Olson noted that frequently it takes a war or a revolution to clear away enough regulatory and special-interest underbrush to allow for fresh economic growth.
But Olson also noted that America has shown a unique capacity for self-renewal, often managing to start afresh without the kind of traumatic cleansing required by other nations.
Perhaps we can do that again. Looking around, I'd say it's about time. And if the end result is less work for lawyers, well, maybe some of those excellent minds can find something entrepreneurial to do instead. The country would probably be better for it.
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Maybe they can be put to work digging ditches.
Lawyer problem. They create the laws. If 85% die tomorrow, it would be a good start.
Lawyers wouldn’t be so busy if people didn’t exploit the laws that make it so easy to sue people. Change the law, and the lawyers will go away.
95% of the lawyers give the other 5% a bad name.
“Does America have a lawyer problem, or a law problem?”
BOTH
DU and the (Liberal) Lawyer Assoc., are gonna love this thread.
Lawyers are not the problem is is government from the smallest city council to the US Congress enacting ever more laws. It is the electorate who demands ever more laws and is willing to sue for anything at the drop of a hat.
Lawyers are to justice what prostitutes are to love.
lol - there’s a tagline in there somewhere.
....and they'll starve w/o control of the power to "reward"
their fiends clients.
....write laws to "help them"....to hell w/ the country.
When my son took the Minnesota bar exam two years ago, there were nearly 700 taking the exam. Assuming 600+ passed the exam, where the heck are all these lawyers finding jobs? According to my son, many of his law school classmates are still looking for employment.
As a retired lawyer, I can say in the USA lawyers are the problem and they keep the problem going as most of our elected politicians have a lawyer background.
Lawyers always put themselves first and the client serves as the vehicle in a lawsuit to fatten the lawyer’s wallet and the client’s share of any recovery is only after the lawyer is rewarded. If there isn’t a lawsuit pending for the client, the lawyer makes the business or personal matter more complicated to justify the resultant bill. Serving as a legislator, any lawyer makes sure a law has complications or punishments guaranteed to provide work for the lawyer class.
Lawyers make sure in the state they practice in that lawyer regulation is done by a body that is lawyer controlled so mistreatment of clients or other misconduct is rarely punished.
That warms my heart. Hopefully they'll get jobs digging ditches. At least then they would be doing something useful.
“95% of the lawyers give the other 5% a bad name.”
Stipulated.
I am going to steal that, by the way.
:-)
“When my son took the Minnesota bar exam two years ago, there were nearly 700 taking the exam. Assuming 600+ passed the exam, where the heck are all these lawyers finding jobs? According to my son, many of his law school classmates are still looking for employment.”
There are a lot of interesting statistics about law and lawyers.
Most only practice about 2 years.
Most only make income in the 30Ks per annum.
The ABA reported about 10 years ago that roughly 1/3 struggle at some point with substance abuse - a low estimate in my opinion. Actual practice, especially litigation, can be horribly stressful.
All that aside, there is a place and a need for ethical and diligent lawyers. Every one of the Obama administration’s defeats in the courts was secured by such people.
Law is just another weapons system, nothing more and nothing less.
...as we carry an oil lamp through the dark nights searching for one...
“Does America have a lawyer problem, or a law problem?”
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was benificently analytical if nothing else, and he observed this about America:
You are a nation of laws, true (leaving out the breaches thereof by supposed upholders of the law) - but you overlook morality. That which is legal is not necessarily moral. That leaves a big void in your (small c) constitution.
Lawyers are the commissars of American socialism - “communism with American characteristics”, to paraphrase Mao.
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