Craigsub;

Yours is the smartest post I have yet seen in this thread. The reforms you mention would go a long way toward ensuring long term economic growth in this country. I would add to your list a tort reform which makes the loser pay all costs associated with a suit. That would keep a lot of the frivolous lawsuits off the books.

What frivolous lawsuits you may ask? How about the silicone breast implant suit that put Dow Corning out of business despite the fact that there is not one iota of scientific evidence that silicone implants cause any kind of disease. How about the suits that drove all but 3 pharmaceutical companies out of the vaccine business? How about the tobacco lawsuits that essentially established a tax on cigarettes, while making several dozen lawyers into billionaires?

Are we as a country any better off without Dow-Corniong? Are we better off with only 3 of the dozen companies making vaccines still in the vaccine business? Are we any more healthy because cigarettes cost a buck more a pack? the answer is a resounding NO! The only people that these large class-action suits benefit are the lawyers who prosecute them.

This country has to get out from under the thumbs of the trial lawyers. Unfortunately, most of our government is made of trial lawyers, and their main job, it seems, is to pass laws that create more jobs for lawyers.

Mark


"Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff"