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From: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Japan
Message-ID: <416@apr.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 18:04:04 GMT
References: <3b4d0eaf.44e6@apollo.uucp>
Reply-To: las@apr.UUCP (Larry Shurr)
Organization: APR, Columbus, OH
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In article <3b4d0eaf.44e6@apollo.uucp> nelson_p@apollo.uucp writes:
>Somebody wrote:
>>Once upon a time there was a land that was free of nasty creatures like

<Oft-told morality story about how the U.S. has a dearth of lawyers and
they are the cause of all of our problems>

> Oh, come on!  Nobody, as far as I know, has suggested that we could 
> do without any lawyers.  The question is why we seem to need so many
> of them...

> It also represents a trend in this country toward the so-called 
> 'service' economy.  Fewer and fewer of us actually make our living
> by MAKING anything.  When there's lots of money to be made in invest-
> ments, or in buying somebody else's company, or in selling somebody
> else's (say, Japanese) products or stealing somebody else's idea and
> hiring some lawyers to cover your ass or hiring some lawyers to beat
> down the competition, or making laws to restrict foreign competition
> then why bother to come up with a new product or process on our own?

But! But!  If I can't blame the problems on some intangible untouchable I 
might have to admit to some shared responsibility for the problems.  No.  
Don't you see.  It's the lawyers fault.  If there were no lawyers there 
would be no legal problems.  The lawyers create all those problems so that 
we'll have to pay them to fix them.  Once you realize this, our legal prob-
lems will be over and then we can go on to get rid of all the garbagemen 
who've been cluttering up our homes with all that garbage so that we have 
to pay them to haul it away.  It really is simple, you see.
-- 
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
- Oscar Wilde, James Whistler or George Bernard Shaw depending on who you ask
Name: Larry A. Shurr (cbosgd!osu-cis!apr!las or try {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbcp1!las)
Disclaimer: The above is not necessarily the opinion of APR or any APR client.