Admittedly, there is a need to stop frivolous lawsuits especially in cases where parents are blaming McDonalds instead of themselves for their child’s sudden increase in weight. Now comes a report from the Bush Administration claiming that these frivolous lawsuits were one of the reasons behind our current unemployment crisis.
"Lawsuit abuse is the ultimate disincentive for hiring new people," Snow said in prepared remarks to a closed session of the American Tort Reform Association. "The cost of doing business is substantially increased by a litigious environment."
Fact: A minority of lawsuits are frivolous, and the lawyers who bring such lawsuits are subject to discipline under the code.
Fact: Without the lawsuits there is one less avenue for regulation. Have we forgotten Enron so quickly.
If the government wants to protect small business then let it protect small business, but not at the detriment of the consumer. They have the right to sue. As for blaming the lawyers for the lack of jobs, well this is the same Bush Administration that claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so what else is new.