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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (11795)	3/21/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

>>Lawyers have the advantage of being able to manage their law firm and be a congressman at the same time. In this way they can pass more laws that will create more frivolous lawsuits and make even more money suing poor slobs that don't even know they broke some new regulation that congress passed the week before. Before I got my JD/MBA I taught history. Drawing on those gray cells (which haven't seen too much blood in a while - or tonight, Merlot) I remember that an American Indian tribe, located in NY state (starting w/ "O"), required that before any law was passed, that there had to be an examination and reflection on what impact that law would have on the 7th succeeding generation. IF it didn't pass the "7th generation" test, then it didn't become law. But how can such wisdom be accomplished in a media-driven age when the measure of any Congress is how many bills it has passed? Even when there are good times the media always invents some crisis that results in demands for more government, especially Federal, to solve it. And at the same time, government programs, as President Reagan had said, have achieved the closest thing to eternal life that the world has ever known. Last night on PBS's NewsHour, Dem commentator Mark Shields went hyper screaming that the Republican Congress had passed just one bill that became law this year! And that law was to name an airport after Ronald Reagan! He stated that Clinton and the Dems were preparing to reprise the 1948 elections, running against the Republicans on a "Do-Nothing Congress" banner campaign. Although the Almost-President has no political clout he still wants Congress to pass laws like mandating school uniforms and other de minimus crap. (And don't forget the $18 BILLION for his $$friends$$ in Indonesia.) Certainly better that than national health care but still it's "legislate or perish"! What then is left of the purpose of local government but to fulfill mandates of the Federal? That legislate anything mentality is but a formula for an unending stream of laws and diminished local democracy. Another well-intentioned poster lamented low turnout. I say why? Do you really want the uninformed to dilute your vote any more than they already have? Doesn't the lesson of two minority Clinton presidencies cry out for some sort of political literacy test for voting eligibility? That same person stated that he may vote third party in 2000. I say thank you very much and welcome to President Gore! You have lamented the tort lawyers. I am in the Amen chorus on that. The Republicans have been trying to reign them in for years but in doing so the liability lawyers have become the biggest contributors to the Dem party. Last week ABC's John Stoessel (ABC's best) ran a report on how Gov. Chiles of Florida had changed the state's laws to make it easier to win a tobacco suit. He then assigned the case to his cronies and in short order he settled it. The ABC report stated that each of his crony-campaign contributors that he designated as lawyers for that suit were in line to receive about $100,000,000. Each!!!!! For some strange reason Gov. Chiles refused to assign the case to attorneys working for the state of Florida. Gee, I wonder why. Btw, tobacco is still legal, the product has had warnings for 30 years and it is still grown with government subsidies.