Health reform means more jobs … for lawyers
Re: “Health care 101: What happens if the bill passes,” March 15
Whenever you have extensive statutory or regulatory systems, and Obamacare has both, lawyers soon flock to it. It means that more lawyers will be necessary inside and outside of government to handle the forthcoming litigation.
So another name for Obamacare would be the Lawyer’s Full Employment Act.
Maj. James M. Dorn (USAR-Retired)
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Unlike anarchists, tea partiers believe in limited government
Re: “Anarchists are the same as tea partiers,” From Readers, March 21
I beg to differ with Bruce Sirota’s comments comparing anarchists to tea partiers. Tea Party activists come from a wide spectrum of Americans who believe that laws and procedures set out in the Constitution are not suggestions.
They also believe that states’ rights set forth by the Constitution are being usurped by the federal government. Not much had been said about this until Tea Party activists drew a line in the sand and said, “No more!”
That’s not anarchy, that’s being an American.
John Dunleavy
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Middle East ‘solution’ is all concessions from Israel
Re: “Secretary Clinton provokes tension,” March 19
I was surprised that R. Emmett Tyrrell endorsed a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Michael Steinhardt as a possible road to peace in the Middle East. All the concessions to be made are on the part of Israel, coupled with world community funding. Nowhere did he mention compensation for the more than 800,000 penniless Arab Jews driven out of their ancestral homelands.
Instead, Mr. Steinhardt advocated throwing an additional $100 billion into the laps of fewer than 600,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel, for the most part voluntarily, during the 1948 war waged to destroy the Jewish nation. This amounts to $150,000 per person where the average pay is less than $10,000 per year for an entire family.
The major problems were not addressed in this so-called solution, including final boundaries, Arab incitement and terror, and even a limited “right of return” to the truncated Israel. Needless to say, a number of letters published in the Wall Street Journal denounced this one-sided solution.
Nelson Marans
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