Lawyers, Businessmen, Democrats, Republicans

[Eyeball Chambers]

This
> hits very close to home but makes some interesting points. A
> similar theme was articulated by Scalia a while back when he essentially said
>that "we are devoting too many of our best minds to lawyering".
>
>
> Barack Obama is a lawyer.
>
> Michelle Obama is a lawyer.
>
> Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.
>
> Bill Clinton is a lawyer.
>
> John Edwards is a lawyer.
>
> Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.
>
> Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although
>Gore did not graduate).
>
> Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd
>Bentsen, went to law school.
>
> Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:
>
> Harry Reid is a lawyer.
>
> Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.
>
> The Republican Party is different.
>
> President Bush is a businessman..
>
> Vice President Cheney is a businessman.
>
> The leaders of the Republican Revolution:
>
> Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
>
> Tom Delay was an exterminator.
>Dick
> Armey was an economist.
>
> House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic 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 Ronald Reagan in
>1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real
>work, who are often the targets of lawyers.
>
> The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock
>and scorn men who create wealth, like 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 we have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of
>the Lawyers' Party, 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, in this case 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 lawyers use criminal prosecution as a continuation
>of politics by other means, as happened in the lynching of Scooter
>Libby and Tom Delay, then the power of lawyers in America is
>too great. When House Democrats sue America in
>order 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.
>
> We cannot expect the Lawyers' Party to provide real change, real reform
>or real hope in America Most Americans
>know that a republic in which every major government action must be
>blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended
>in 1789. Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits
>snap at the heels of our defenders. Most Americans intuit that
>more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or
>spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy..
>
> 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 (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 also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice
>lawsuits. This legislation has continually 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 goes to the Democrat Party,
> then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs
>being so high!
>

Wow, your first good politics-related post ever!!!

 

[Coach is Back!]

Hahaha, the lib responses in this thread are priceless and predictable....LMAO!!

[Fury]

The Mitt Romney thread down the page brought to light the fact that he has a JD as well. Do you have a problem with him? He's arguably one of the stronger Republicans right now.

[Azn Muscle]

Great read coach.

I always thought it was funny how people who studied Law ended up dictating Economic Policy.  Its ludicrous. 

I think anyone who has taken any sort of course in basic economics or who has ever ran their own business often watches the news wondeing "WTF?!?! HOW IS THAT A GOOD IDEA?!?!"

ie. healthcare, bailouts, ending bush tax cuts etc. WTF

[Azn Muscle]

I remember I read this study done on the economic growth of countries in college where they compared countries that had high amounts of lawyers vs. businessmen etc.

The countries with high populations of lawyers were not as economically as prosperous because the emphasis was on the redistribution of wealth (irony lol) as opposed to the countries with a higher percentage of businessmen that created new wealth.  It doesn't take a genius to understand this fact. 

Businesses produce growth and prosperity.  Lawyers contribute nothing (economically) to society.

[Azn Muscle]

I remember I read this study done on the economic growth of countries in college where they compared countries that had high amounts of lawyers vs. businessmen etc.

The countries with high populations of lawyers experienced low rates of growth because the emphasis was on the redistribution of wealth (irony lol) as opposed to the countries with a higher percentage of businessmen that created new wealth.  It doesn't take a genius to understand this fact. 

Businesses produce growth and prosperity.  Lawyers contribute nothing (economically) to society.

[bigdumbbell]

Coach's standard (read : subpar) M.O. will have him either :

1 - Read this thread over and over with his sphincter clenched but not post on it again.
2 - post something that contains the word "libs" and followed by a Rush cut and paste hack job.

I guess a combination of drugs and divorce really does cause dementia.

plus low self-esteem, midget complex and lack of education.   

[LurkerNoMore]

the lib

Yep.  I was correct.

Then again, it wasn't really hard predicting the behavior of a frontal lobe lacking hypocrite.

It is like this guy not only accepts he is stupid, but he just wallows in it.

[OneMoreRep]

This statement, "Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich," as posed in the article is certainly a false, blanketed statement that truly speaks volumes about the intentions of the author.

Why so much hate?  Why can't all men be gay and merry? 
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[Coach is Back!]

Haha, libs still melting down. Hahaha

[LurkerNoMore]

Haha, Coach still stupid, hahaha