For once in your life, you are about to meet a politician who can actually live up to the first 6 letters in the word “candidate.” Prepare to be amazed.
The Lawyer vs. The Working Man. What is a criminal lawyer? Redundant. That is one of the many jokes about lawyers that we chuckle over on a regular basis in this country. There can be no doubt that many of the problems this nation faces stem from our over litigiousness as a society. Hair Dryers have warning labels to “not use while sleeping” and McDonald’s has to warn its customers that their coffee is served hot. While the citizenry certainly bears much of the responsibility for this frivolity, the trial lawyers who make upwards of 40% of the winnings per lawsuit are the impetus for the stupidity. How then, can we expect these same people to work against the nature of their training in the halls of Congress?
Well over 40% of House members and over 60% of Senators are lawyers, or have practiced law in the past. Some, including Representative Barney Frank, have not even practiced privately, and instead have used their legal prowess to turn our Great Nation into a nanny state. It is ironic that we leave the heavy legislative lifting to people that we castigate with jokes in real life.
I am NOT a lawyer. I'm an assembly-line worker used to doing some heavy lifting. I started my political career with a bullhorn, and I will take it to DC so that the working man, whose voice has been ignored lately, WILL be heard again.
