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To: LindyBill who wrote (53133)	7/7/2004 10:18:39 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 794708

Excellent article, thanks for posting it.

To: LindyBill who wrote (53133)	7/7/2004 4:19:58 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794708

...."Out of total U.S. tort costs of over $200 billion -- more than 2% of GDP -- Trial Lawyers, Inc. grosses $40 billion per year in revenues, or 50% more than Microsoft or Intel and twice those of Coca-Cola.".... w2 faints ....And so when Edwards pledged last year to carry the fight to "Big Corporations, Pharmaceutical Companies, Big Insurances Companies, Big HMOs," he got a big ovation. But one day, when a lot of those "bigs" are out of business, even the rowdiest and most populist Americans will come to realize that a paycheck is better than a cheerline. And the choice to back rich trial lawyers at the expense of rich job-creators will be seen as the strangest mutation of liberalism yet..... OOF Ö¿Ö