You know Mark, that if more people went on a "rant" about frivolous lawsuits, then the US wouldn't be in the economic mess that we're in right now. It starts by allowing these sleeze-ball attorneys to advertise. It is the cause of why your medical bills and insurance is so high. It's why your auto insurance costs so much. The reason why the american public pays so much for everything is because of lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits. I recently attented a city council meeting in my small town. Can you believe that they were requiring a contractor to have a million dollars worth of liability insurance.... To paint the exterior of the small MIll building?And you wonder why your taxes are so high?I say we start a grass-roots effort to ban attorney's from advertising on TV., and require limits and a review process for civil and medical malpractice suits. it paid my salary for two years, and it was really interesting work, but it just irritates me to no end to have put that much effort into something that's now been shelved due to the fear of a frivolous, groundless lawsuit.
The problem is that nobody's reponsible for their own actions or decisions anymore. And stuff doesn't "just happen" either. We live in a society where when something negative occurs, it's somebody else's fault, and the first place you look to place the blame is wherever the biggest pot of money lies. My father's been sued twice for a million dollars each time. They were both so rediculous it'd make you cry, but it cost him a year of sleepless nights, and well over $40,000 to defend himself, even though both suits were groundless. Sore subject, I guess. Sorry about the rant... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL mailto:langf...@hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford _______________________________________________ see KRnet list details at http://www.krnet.org/instructions.html Scott Cable KR-2S # 735 Linden, MI s2cab...@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
