An American government study has estimated that over half of America's wage dollars are going to people whose job is to sit looking thoughtful as they pass pieces of information around, and these workers are now twice as numerous as workers in manufacturing and agriculture combined.
Americans in all walks of life are being buried under an avalanche of lawsuits. ... The mountain of litigation is growing so fast that no one knows how big the case load is. The number of lawsuits filed in this country topped the 7-million mark last year, according to one estimate. But there is little doubt about the result: social and economic repercussions rippling through society, touching virtually every aspect of American life in one way or another, often for the worse.
