I concur with your view however you forgot to include the other thing that people don't see. You pay out the nose for malpractice insurance because people always want the easy buck and view someone's death or injury someone else's fault and never their own. I come from a family of Doctor's ( I am the under achiever in the group) and when a lady wrecked her car through gross negligence it caught on fire. A friend of ours, a doctor, stopped and saw a 8 year old still inside while the mother was freaking and weeping. He did the movie hero thing and ran to the burning car, yanked the child out seconds before the car went up in a ball of fire. She sued him for disclocating the kids shoulder. It took over a year before the case was thrown out and his insurance rates went up even though he won.
On the other hand, you could give up all those years of schooling you are having to do, the sleepless nights of your internship and being a resident and put hub caps on a car at any Detroit plant that a monkey could do and make 20-40 bucks an hour thanks to union BS. This country has it's priorities all screwed up.
In October's National Geographic they pointed out the developed nations birthrate is dropping while under developed nations (Africa, Central and South America etc) is 2-3 times ours. I read a report in the past where here in the US there is an inverse proportion to education and birth rate. I was looking throught the 99 US budget and saw we as usual are giving money to under developed nations for famine relief, hurricane damages etc. Therefore, hurry up and get your schooling out of the way so we can make you work for free and pay the welfare for the rest of the world and the crack mothers. <g>
Lee
EDIT - Just read throught the rest of the string and saw the lawyers mentioned. While I love a good lawyer joke, I believe it is the people that sue not the lawyers. A lawyer didn't run up to the lady that dropped the coffee in her lap at Micky Ds. She sought them out to sue. I have seen surveillance tapes of people smearing lettuce on the floor of a super market then gently sitting on the floor before screaming and trying to claim they slipped and fell so they could sue Albertsons. Now days if you try a frivolous lawsuit and lose, you can sue your lawyer for losing the case. No one wants to work anymore. They just want the money given to them.
PS - If I don't get rich in the market from what I learn on SI, maybe I can sue them. LOL |
