We have a huge legal problem in this
country. There are too many attorneys
with too much power. While they do provide
a valuable service, they do not produce anything. That is why in many countries, attorneys are
considered service people and are considered very low in social and economic
status.
The United States has only 5% of the world’s
population, but 70% of the world’s lawyers.
We are allowing them to shape our country.
Our federal
government is controlled by attorneys.
43% of the Congress is made up of lawyers, 60% of the Senate and 37% of
the House. Those numbers explain why
legislation is thousands of pages long, and no one, including the lawyers, understand
the bill or law.
No law should
be more than fifty pages long, and if it cannot be clearly understood by a high
school graduate, it needs to go back to the drawing board. Attorneys are intelligent enough to write a
law that meets these requirements.
One measure
of intelligence is the ability to communicate in a clear and understandable
manner. By that standard, the authors of
most of our laws and legal documents don’t show a lot of smarts.
Our courts
are totally controlled by attorneys, including the judges. We have all heard the statement: “Only a fool
defends himself.” How did we get to that
mindset? Any competent individual should
be able to represent himself.
Sometimes the
local courts turn into good-old-boy clubs. If you ever have to bring a civil action in
another city or state, it becomes necessary to retain a local attorney. If you bring in council from outside the area,
you may have lost before you start.
Some Courts
like the 9th District Court of Appeals has become so politically
partisan that something has to change. The
Supreme Court has overturned over 85% of their decisions brought up on appeal. The 9th District Court needs to be
broken up or the judges fired. Our courts must stop legislating from the
bench.
We need tort
reform. Attorneys and the courts have
taken personal injury cases, medical malpractice cases, and class action suits
to the point of being ludicrous. These
ridiculous awards for punitive damages cost all of us with higher cost of goods
and services including health care. No
one can make a product idiot proof.
People who
bring frivolous lawsuits must be penalized financially for wasting the time of
the court and the defendant. No one
should be hurt financially for defending themselves against a frivolous law
suit.
We all sign
contracts for services. Most are so long
and complex that no one reads them and couldn’t understand them if we tried. We can’t afford to take them to an attorney
every time we’re faced with one.
I once worked
for a company that had in-house council.
I asked him if something I wanted to do was legal or if I could do it. He asked me which question I wanted answered,
because the answers were not the same.
I am not
saying lawyers are corrupt or necessarily bad.
Most are honest, hard-working people that follow the rules and work
within the system. I have a son who is
an honest attorney who provides a valuable service. The problem is with the courts and the
government. Both have become too
powerful.
Is the
current legal system about justice and protecting our freedoms, or is it about
expanding business and control for attorneys?
Our entire legal system, including our government, has become too
complex. That is great for the legal profession, but terrible for the rest of
the country.
Attorneys are
smart people. They can make it simple if
they want. The problem is that does not
make them money and does not promote big government. We need change.
God bless the
United States of America . God bless President Trump and guide him to
make America
great again.
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