Special interest groups
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The legislation to permit consumer class actions] “is only nominally an act ‘to extend protection against fraudulent or deceptive practices.’ It is more accurately an act to line the pockets of ingenious attorneys. If this bill passes, the lawyers will be in high cotton; their client consumers will be still hoeing the short row.
This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.
The moment you get either people or lawyers apprised of the fact that a company has a toxic material on their premises, they’re going to bring a lawsuit.
A strike is an economic struggle between employer and employee, testing to see who will succumb to the economic pinch first and seek settlement. But if one side is relieved of economic hardship by tax-supported subsidy programs, the struggle is undermined.
