Getting off the train this morning I saw a book lying on the seat next to kind of a scuzzy- looking student type: Constitutional Law. Great, I thought, just what we need — another lawyer.
We have way too many laws in this country, and the reason being is most of our legislators are lawyers. Need something fixed? Let's pass a law. That's just how lawyers think. They get elected and the first thing they do is brag about how much legislation they’ve proposed. When will someone come along and instead brag about how many laws they’ve abolished?
A good example is the business about driving with a cell phone. There are already laws about driving to endanger, but people want to make it illegal to drive while using a cell phone. But you can shave, read a paper, and put on makeup when you drive, and while these things probably are even more distracting than talking on a cell, they’re legal. This doesn’t make sense. And don’t say let’s make all that other stuff illegal, too. The idea is make less laws. Do we really need more laws to tell us how to drive safely?
It’s how lawyers think, and it seems to me they’ve set up the system to feather their own nests. It seems you can’t do anything of marginal consequence in this country without a paper signed by a lawyer.
You certainly can’t take a person’s word on anything anymore. And I think we have lawyers to blame for that. I think lawyers have caused us all to distrust each other, afraid that one person is going to sue the bejesus out of the other, when a handshake is really all you need.
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