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PART 8 of 10: The economics of non-economic damages. Never trust a trial lawyer. It's okay to hate liberal trial lawyers.

By Steve Lombardi

Now listen to the conclusions made in this film clip about communism, without any proof of the underlying premises. This is similar to the tactics tort reformists employ. It's all about emotions. The dusty attics and basements can be interchanged with courtrooms and lawsuits. Khrushchev and trial lawyers can be interchanged. Every time I hear another tort reformers anti-trial-lawyer-manifesto I want to laugh, but too many people aren't familiar with history and willing to ignore reports of record profits on Wall Street while corporate American claims the American economy is being ruined by trial lawyers. Where is the discussion of the economy being ruined by companies sending jobs overseas and the discussion of why they do? I can prove it can't be lawsuits. If it were lawsuits you would have seen jobs come back to America after the Bush years. But we haven't, now have we. Ask yourself why not. Who is lying? Who is cheating the system? Who is really to blame?

TEXANS FOR TORT REFORM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lena9S18hyc

After listening to this video clip I want to hate trial lawyers and injured people. You'd think we lawyers sit around planning and plotting how to make millions or even billions off of the legal system. We don't we can't because we have no clue what injured person may next walk into our office. We lawyers don't cause the accidents we only ask, why are there so many accidents and injured people? Coffee shops aren't filled with lazy shiftless people who while unemployed secretly meet at Starbucks drinking coffee with slick lawyers and scheming how they can next become injured.

As absurd as this seems to me people do believe that's what we do. Tort reform is successful because of it's subliminal messages about how you can't trust trial lawyers.

BETTER DEAD THEN BLED BY TRIAL LAWYERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsqBs8iOmvE

If you want to know what is killing the American way of life, it's no big surprise. It's called Made in China, Toyota, Honda, Lexis, Mercedes, Nissan, Subaru, Volvo, BMW and all the foreign manufacturers that you buy each and every day you shop. It's not the trial lawyers filing a thousand lawsuits, who are to blame. It's you buying billions of foreign made goods. You are putting yourselves out of work. You are causing the health insurance crisis. You are causing jobs to go overseas. You are voting for those who are lying to you or promising you a dream that doesn't exist.

Simply put its Americans. It's our Congressional lobbyists spending millions of dollars to pass legislation and it's the confusion they create. Not yet sufficiently confused? Well keep reading. The truth is what they say it is. And you can blame lawyers. You just can't blame personal injury lawyers. Yes, it is lawyers but they are lawyers working for corporate America, lobbying the Congress to reshape your reality. They create a world of confusion and blame the personal injury trial lawyers. You doubt it; see below.

Foreign cars versus American cars

In 2005 there were 63 million cars and light trucks produced worldwide. The USA produced 11,524,000, Japan produced 10,064,000, Germany produced 5,543,000, followed by China. Would you be surprised to know that many of the vehicles manufactured in the USA are designated as 'foreign' while many vehicles manufactured in Mexico or Canada are designated as 'domestic' (American)? That's due to federal regulations that require a 'domestic' vehicle to be made of at least 75% domestic parts (content). So, US manufacturers send parts to Mexico or Canada where the cars are built, but are legally sold as 'domestic'. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Hyundai manufacture cars in the USA, with American workers, in American plants, with American research facilities, that are 'foreign' because they contain less than 75% domestic parts (content). The picture gets even murkier if we take a closer look at the major manufacturers. They are multi-national corporations with operations and manufacturing arms and partners world-wide. General Motors owns or has a percentage stake in Saab, Opel, Holden, Fuji Heavy Industries (Daewoo), Suzuki Motors, and Isuzu Motors. In 1998 Daimler-Benz A.G. of Germany, took control of Chrysler to become DaimlerChrysler A.G. Ford owns Volvo, Land Rover, Aston Martin and Jaguar, and has a significant stake in Mazda. Let's see, BMW owns the Mini and Rolls Royce; Volkswagen owns Bentley… Ok, not withstanding ‘automotive nepotism', for the purpose of this article, foreign means the vehicle has a foreign name-plate and American means the vehicle has an American name-plate!

With defective foreign goods being imported by the billions, America doesn't need fewer trial lawyers; we need more skillful personal injury trial lawyers all ferreting out the truth that you can use.

One last point for the day to ponder: Why is it only one man can be linked to stealing $50 billion over a period of more than 10 years? Who were the lawyers who created the documents that hid the crime for so long?

That had nothing to do with personal injury trial lawyers.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).