Posted On: August 3, 2006, 6:45 am CDT

Posted By: M Harcourt

While I don't agree with the venomous tone of Pancho and I certainly don't care for the pithy attitude of the ambulance chaser Glass I did think about the underlying message in the thread.

It occurs to me that as the ATLA has become much stronger and influential the quality of life for the majority of working Amercians has become much, much worse. They truly are paraisites in that no one really benefits except for a small minority of Americans. This includes lawyers, insurance companies and all of the others that benefit from a system that focuses on litigation prevention more than productivity and innovation.

It also occurs to me that if any group of individuals had power in congress as long as the lawyers have they would all make self serving laws that benefit their group over all others. This would include janitors, construction workers, salesman or even clergy or teachers. The lawyers just employ much more subterfruge in the the application of serving there own selfing needs.

The sad part goes back to Ronald Reagan's famous question "are we better off today than we were". All but the self serving lawyers that rule this county would say NO.

They are too selfish and short sighted to realize they are killing the very country that enables them to live at a level way above what they should but this short term bounty will result in a much lower level of living for thier kids and grandkids.

The worst sort of treason.