| Hawkeye said: Lawyers have to waste (in terms of earning money) 4 years of their life and $20,000-$100,000 dollars of their money in college. ON top of that, 3 years must be spent in law school, which is both rigorous and expensive. After that, only the top lawyers make the salary you posted. Being a lawyer is a bit like a torunement; the average pay is $65,000 or so a year. Top lawyers amke hundereds of thousands to millions, but they work 10-12 hour days, which is brutual. Lawyers deserve every penny they make.
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People love to criticize lawyers for some reason. This is in spite of the fact that.
1) Lawyers are the ones who protect you from the government abusing its power.
2) Lawyers are the reason why the food you buy at the store is safe to eat.
3) Lawyers are the reason why products you buy at the store are safer to use.
4) Lawyers are the ones who put criminals in prison.
5) Lawyers are the ones who prevent people from resorting to violence to resolve conflicts.
6) Lawyers are some of the few people who have the knowledge to pass legislation that will actually work and can't be sidestepped by those trying to get around the laws.
7) Lawyers protect people who invent products and create things themselves.
8) Lawyers are the ones who can help remedy intentional discrimination against you that affects your life and your work.
9) Lawyers protect people who have been wrongfully accused of crimes and are a check on police abuse of power.
10) The lawyers who helped write our Constitution are the reason why it works so well to this day.
Man, lawyers just plain suck! We should get rid of all them! We should go back to a society where everyone just kills each other when they have a problem. Lawyers are such a drag on society!
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
