Was forwarded this -- it is worth reading and thinking about:
Lawyers
As an
attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be an indictment against my
profession. But I believe there is much truth to the article below.
Very thought provoking. Lawyers are adversarial and are trained to try to
win at all costs. It may work in litigation but does not work well when
governing our nation. Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization
and hatred that now fills our country and leaves no room for common sense or
legitimate debate.
Every
Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school, although Gore did
not graduate. Joe Biden (no surprise) was at the bottom of his
class. Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for
Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Barack Obama was a lawyer.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. Bill
Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards
was a lawyer. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate
majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer. Former Senator Harry Reid was
a lawyer.
The
Republican Party is different. President Trump was a businessman.
Presidents Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice President Cheney was a
businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 star General. The leaders
of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Tom
Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. Ex-House
Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer. The former
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last
Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31
years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president,
running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made
up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.
This is very interesting. I had never thought about it this way before.
The
Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who
create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist,
or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party
sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as
the enemies of America. And so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have
seen the procession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and
Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals,
manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers,
and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.
This is
the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of
lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their
clients, which, in this case should be the American people. Lawyers seek
to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts
to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their
side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it
is an awful way to govern a great nation.
When
politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other
Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life
becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very
government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action
suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of
freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.
Today, we
are drowning in laws. We are contorted by judicial decisions. We
are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once
private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place
is modest and reasonable, not vast, and unchecked. When the most
important decision for our next president is whom, he will appoint to the
Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.
When House Democrats sue America to hamstring our efforts to learn what our
enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has
become crushing.
Perhaps Americans
will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers
who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps
Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from
personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace
the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.
The United
States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the world's lawyers! Tort
or legal reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in
the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as
spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you
and to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This
legislation has been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat
Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the
American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize
who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high
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