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From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery)
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Subject: Re: long live lawyer ;-)
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 13:56:37 EST
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>> Do we really need lawyers? 
>> 
>> Am I alone in thinking lawyers are fouling
>> things up more than they are fixing them?  
>
>You certainly ARE NOT alone in your assessments about attorneys. It has long
>been known that if there is one lawyer in a town, he will starve. If there
>are two, they will both get rich.
>
>-- 
>Gary Benson m/s232e  -*- John Fluke Mfg Co  Box C9090 -*-  Everett WA 98206 USA
>{microsoft,allegra,ssc-vax,sun,sb1}{decvax,ihnp4,tektronix!uw-beaver}!fluke!inc
>-_-_-_-andthewordsoftheprophetswerewrittenonthesubwaywalls,tenementhalls-_-_-_-

We should insist that the legal codes, regulations, etc., of ALL of the
various branches of government *taken together* should be small enough
to fit in one book no larger than a dictionary.  (We could take the cost
of printing updated versions out of the congresscritters' salaries.)
Thus it would not be very difficult for almost everyone to understand
the entirety of the law.  These (expensive!) legal specialists would not
have much left to do, nor would taxpayers have to hire tax accountants
to help them escape the clutches of IRS auditors for another year.  In
addition, the government would lose a nasty tactic of repression: sudden
enforcement of old, little known, and previously unenforced laws.  (This
has at least one other nice effect -- the ADA specification simply would
not fit, so DOD would have to drop it.  GRIN!)

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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