I found out where Big Brother lives...his address is the U.S. Judicial System.

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It's much better for them to sit in a vegitative state in front of a TV or computer monitor playing video games like Halo2 or Grand Theft Auto.

 

You can look at any subject, take a side on the issue, and debate it. What is amazing to me is that all of a sudden everyone is an expert on the subject.

 

Man what is next with the sue happy people, the girl could of got tangled up out on the pay ground, I have seen broken bones of all sorts from schools,things happen!!! I better get off my rant early. Goodluck,,Rick

 

This is a perfect example of what is wrong in America today. Too many greedy lawyers and sue-happy people always looking to blame someone else so they can get a settlement. Can anyone imagine how much cheaper insurance would be if there was a way to bring an end to unfounded civil suits? What happened to common sense and accepting responsibility for your own actions?

 

Surfram, you hit the nail on the head by asking where is self responsibility and common sense. I think that the entitlement that the government has given the underpriveledged over the years has led to a society that thinks everything should be handed to them on a silver platter. This includes settlement payoffs for issues that should have never made it to the court system in the 1st place.......

Gary

 

Well what do you expect, that is New York. I left not too far from Vestal many years ago. Never looked back....

 

So they are also saying it's to violent for 17-18 year old senior's in highschool? Either kids are becoming bigger wuss's these days or I was raised to be a hard butt. I've been playing dodgeball since I was in kindergarden. Did I get hurt? Yup. Did I sue? No. It was part of the game. We actually played to see who would get hurt more. I'd hate to see what the court would do to us today for playing like that.

 

I have been saying that for years.

 

What?!? Responsibility? Accountability? In the U$A? These bs personal injury lawsuits have been going since the early '60's. Huge settlements because jurors were told "Don't worry, it's not the defendant paying, it's their (big bad greedy) insurance co. " If your lawsuit fails, maybe you (with your legal counsel covering 50% of course) should have to pay the legal costs incurred by the defendant.

A number of years ago, my employer's share of damages for a badly broken leg was $150,000. Loading pipe onto one of our trucks in a pipeyard in Texas. Our driver sitting in the cab as instructed. Loader operator putting pipe onto a flatdeck, when one got away. Rolled off of the trailer and injured another yard employee. Everyone got sued. When the boss got down to Texas, to defend against the suit, he was advised by his lawyer "You can't win this, Hispanic judge, jury and defendant.. Take the settlement." $1,000,000 total. Our sin was showing up to pick up a load of pipe from a yard that loaded pipe as its business and doing what we were told to do. Sure our insurance paid, but our premiums then went up, which equates into less money for equipment, employment etc.

They(frivilous lawsuits) are now, some 40 years later reaching into Canada. Just one more reason the planet needs far fewer Ralph Nader's.

And one more note: Scuzman00, these suits are not, by any stretch of the imagination, more prevalent among the underprivileged than they are among the "privileged". BTW, haven't been back to Texas since April. But I'll give you a call next time I get there

 

It says somewhere in some law that everybody has the right to a fair trial. I never understood why it should make a difference if the judge, jury, or lawyers were black, hispanic, chinese, irish. What should matter is the law...not WHO is breaking it or WHO is at fault. What a bunch of crap.

 

Dodgeball and kickball are too danderous for K-12 students? What about tag-then-knock-down football, or the 9-12 playing tackle football?


Transplant

 

And to think that we almost had a sue happy lawyer as VP.

 

Transplant? Homebody!

 

Just thinking out loud...

I love our court system and would die defending it. If you're not free to sue, you're not free. Our court system is VERY freedom oriented, and it needs to remain like that. If we start adding "you can't sue here", "You can't sue them" laws and regulations, we're doomed.

Now, lawyers on the other hand. They're free game... And biased judges, that's a load of B.S. It comes from affirmative action- I mean, minority's usually identify with their class, much more so than the general un-racist white guy. It's a unity thing, and since affirmative action is so prevalent, it's the biased minorities on the benchs... And dumb-butt liberal's who fail to demonstrate an even partial resemblance to human thought... What we need is to find judges that aren't idealists is what we need to do, but that would backfire too... I guess we can't fix our system without making it worse, so it has to stay. It's not TOO bad.

(What we can do, however, is kill all the lawyers and liberals. It was National Ammo Day a few days ago.. )