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Forwarded to me from a friend:

REFLECTIONS -- MY PROFESSION

As an attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be considered
to be an indictment against my profession. But I believe there is much
truth to the article below. Very thought provoking. Lawyers are
adversarial and are trained to try to win at all costs. May work in
litigation, but does not work well when governing our nation in
Congress. Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization and
hatred that now fills our country. It leaves little room for common sense
or legitimate debate."

Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school
[although Gore did not graduate, and Biden (no surprise) was at the
bottom of his class]. Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since
1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Barack Obama was
a lawyer. Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer.
Bill Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth
Edwards was a lawyer. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in
Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer. Former
Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different. President Trump is a businessman.
President Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice President Cheney was a
businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 star General. The leaders
of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor.
Tom Delay was an exterminator. Dick Armey was an economist. Ex-House
Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer. The former
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the
last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left
office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a
sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The
Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are
often the targets of lawyers. This is very interesting. I had never
thought about it this way before.

The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn
men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the
sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich.
The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and
services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so, in
the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official
enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical
companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food
restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone
producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the
eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing
their clients, which, in this case should be the American people.
Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they
press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse
language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law,
that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.

When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients
and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal
system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become
adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in
some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic
that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and
from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial
decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all
parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and
lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and
unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is
whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the
law in America is too big. When House Democrats sue America in order
to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do
to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to
our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American
society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not
come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by
hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers
with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world's population and 66% of the
world's lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced
in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive
damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself
and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit
punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This
legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by
the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political
contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the
Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical
and product costs being so high.
"To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine
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