Answer: A good start........
In 2006 a man named Allen Heckard sued Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for $832 million. His claim was that he suffered defamation, permanent injury, and emotional pain and suffering. (Here's the good part) All of this was because people often mistook him for the basketball star. Wow wouldn't it suck to be mistaken for the greatest basketball player to ever play the game?
In 2005, Austin Aitken sued NBC for $2.5 million. His claim was that after watching an episode of “Fear Factor”....it caused him “suffering, injury, and great pain.” (Again...here's the good part) It seems that watching the contestants eat rats and pig eyeballs on television, made him dizzy and light-headed which in turn caused him to vomit and then run into a doorway ....Really?...you're smart enough to come up with that story and seek out a lawyer, and too dumb to change the channel?
Here's one of my favorites....In 2000, Cleanthi Peters sued Universal Studios for $15,000. (get ready...here it comes) She claims that she suffered extreme fear, mental anguish, and emotional distress due to visiting Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights....What part of "Horror" didn't you understand?...It wasn't called "Halloween Happy Nights" you idiot. What did you go there expecting to see?
These are just a few of the gazillion frivolous lawsuits that are filed every year. Why is that? My answer would be that we have become society of entitlement and wanting "something for nothing". Try watching TV without seeing a commercial for some attorney...it cant be done. I want to puke when I see some guy on television look into the camera....almost in tears...and say..."I want to represent you, because I care". That is partially true...he cares about the money. Some even tell a sad story of a family member that was injured or killed, in an attempt to form a bond of commonality with the viewer. It's the whole "I feel your pain" ploy.
Some of these guys are shameless and their advertising is so blatantly patronizing that I wouldn't be surprised to hear something like this..."If you have been injured in an accident, upset by seeing someone who was injured in an accident...have been bitten by a dog, seen a dog or owned a dog...slipped and fallen, know what the word slipped means, know what the word fallen means...then call me, because I care about you...you're like family to me and I just want to help you".
Sound familiar?....It's the same story that many of our elected officials (I cringe when I have to say "elected officials"... are we really that dumb?)...in Washington D.C. are telling the masses every day....."We love you and want what is best for you". Bull doodie !!! (sorry for the extreme language). Wake up...they don't care about you. They care about controlling you. If everyone is on the government dole...then they in reality own us. It's only at that point, that they become necessary. If capitalism is destroyed, then we as a society will become a welfare state, and we will have no choice but to turn to the government for help. Like the trial attorneys, they say that they want to help you with every little detail of your life...they want to "fix" it for you. They use the same patronizing speech as the trial attorneys. "Bring me all of your problems and I'll take care of everything". But just like the trial attorneys....there is a price to be paid. Some of the most expensive things in life are those things that are advertised as free. (yeah that's an original quote...feel free to use it as long as you give me credit for saying it...after all it took me almost 9 seconds to come up with those brilliant words)
Here's what it really comes down to.....take responsibility for your own life. Sometimes things just happen...and when they do, it doesn't always have to be someone else's fault. There are actually people who don't want to speak up for tort reform because in the back of their mind they are thinking..."well what if I went to "Halloween Horror Nights" and got scared?"...Their logic is that they themselves might need that option some day...so let's keep this nonsense around, just in case. (well...that and they don't know what tort reform is)
The same twisted "logic" is also used for NOT speaking up against the government trying to take over every aspect, of everyone's life..."let's get that 'free' health care, 'cause I might need it someday". Here's an idea...take responsibility for yourself. My dad always told me that there are two kinds of people in the world..."those who do things...and those who will stand by and let them". There are far too many people in our society that are content with standing by and letting others do for them. I have personally known people who have lost their job...filed for unemployment...couldn't find a job for the entire time that their unemployment was in effect...and then miraculously, right before their unemployment benefits ran out...they found a job. Praise Jesus !! That is nothing more than government-enabled laziness. After all...why work, if I don't have to...right?
Right now the business that I am in really sucks...but I don't want a government bailout....But let me say that when my business turns around...I don't want the government sticking their collective noses in my business, wanting more of what my family and I have sacrificed to have. It's time to take responsibility for our actions...it's time for the trial lawyers and frivolous lawsuits to be brought under control...it's time to get rid of those who are in office in Washington, and put some people in place, who will keep the government OUT of our businesses and personal lives, instead of more and more into it.
With that said....What do you call 535 Congresspeople at the bottom of the ocean?....if you said..."A good start", then you would be correct. Then Again....That's Just Me
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