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February 28, 2009 at 5:17 PM #358016February 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM #357440
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Participant[quote=Borat]Borat: if you think that 190 unemployed attorneys AND 250 unemployed support staff (do you loathe paralegals and secretaries, too?) hitting the streets isn’t going to exacerbate this spiral into disaster, then you’re missing the big picture.
Again puh-leeze. They will have to go work in an ACTUAL INDUSTRY that produces something of value rather than just pushing paper. Let them go do accounting in a machine shop or for a plumbing business. Let them go to mortuary school. Let them learn how to drive a truck or dig holes in the ground. I think we can survive with a few less law firms.
What do you call 300 unemployed lawyers? A good start.[/quote]
Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
LOL.
February 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM #357742Participant[quote=Borat]Borat: if you think that 190 unemployed attorneys AND 250 unemployed support staff (do you loathe paralegals and secretaries, too?) hitting the streets isn’t going to exacerbate this spiral into disaster, then you’re missing the big picture.
Again puh-leeze. They will have to go work in an ACTUAL INDUSTRY that produces something of value rather than just pushing paper. Let them go do accounting in a machine shop or for a plumbing business. Let them go to mortuary school. Let them learn how to drive a truck or dig holes in the ground. I think we can survive with a few less law firms.
What do you call 300 unemployed lawyers? A good start.[/quote]
Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
LOL.
February 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM #357883Participant[quote=Borat]Borat: if you think that 190 unemployed attorneys AND 250 unemployed support staff (do you loathe paralegals and secretaries, too?) hitting the streets isn’t going to exacerbate this spiral into disaster, then you’re missing the big picture.
Again puh-leeze. They will have to go work in an ACTUAL INDUSTRY that produces something of value rather than just pushing paper. Let them go do accounting in a machine shop or for a plumbing business. Let them go to mortuary school. Let them learn how to drive a truck or dig holes in the ground. I think we can survive with a few less law firms.
What do you call 300 unemployed lawyers? A good start.[/quote]
Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
LOL.
February 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM #357914Participant[quote=Borat]Borat: if you think that 190 unemployed attorneys AND 250 unemployed support staff (do you loathe paralegals and secretaries, too?) hitting the streets isn’t going to exacerbate this spiral into disaster, then you’re missing the big picture.
Again puh-leeze. They will have to go work in an ACTUAL INDUSTRY that produces something of value rather than just pushing paper. Let them go do accounting in a machine shop or for a plumbing business. Let them go to mortuary school. Let them learn how to drive a truck or dig holes in the ground. I think we can survive with a few less law firms.
What do you call 300 unemployed lawyers? A good start.[/quote]
Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
LOL.
February 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM #358021Participant[quote=Borat]Borat: if you think that 190 unemployed attorneys AND 250 unemployed support staff (do you loathe paralegals and secretaries, too?) hitting the streets isn’t going to exacerbate this spiral into disaster, then you’re missing the big picture.
Again puh-leeze. They will have to go work in an ACTUAL INDUSTRY that produces something of value rather than just pushing paper. Let them go do accounting in a machine shop or for a plumbing business. Let them go to mortuary school. Let them learn how to drive a truck or dig holes in the ground. I think we can survive with a few less law firms.
What do you call 300 unemployed lawyers? A good start.[/quote]
Wow. You’re so right, Borat. What am I thinking? Hey, exactly which ACTUAL INDUSTRIES are still hiring those who produce things of value? Why don’t you post a sampling of machine shops or plumbing businesses in your local classifieds that are hiring right now.
Yeah, I’ll give you a few months or years to come up with that list.
When anyone loses a job in this depression — be it a lawyer, an equity trader, a teacher or a maid — it’s bad for everyone. Including you. But you probably won’t understand that until you lose your job.
And by the way, that’s a brilliant idea: send all the unemployed lawyers to mortuary school. They’re losing their homes – which means MORE foreclosures – and student loan funding is drying up. Just keep coming up with these gems, Borat. Maybe there’s a job for you on Obama’s economic team of clowns.
LOL.
February 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM #357445Participant[quote=davelj][quote=scaredycat]lawyer ad something to society.
it’s productive. imagine a society without a legal system. bad.
lawyers are good.[/quote]
How about “some” lawyers are good. Most are degreed overpaid paralegals – empty suits. Who would no more car jack someone than fly to the moon. Nope, I’m not worried about “lawyers gone bad” roaming the streets for victims. I’ve never met any that had the stomach for it. That’s why they choose to battle with each other via briefs. “Hand over that car, Sir, or I will inflict eggregious damage to your person with my genuine leather briefcase! And be hasty about it!!”[/quote]
Speaking as a lawyer, I know very well that some of my colleagues would, if desperate and hungry enough, take you down in a dark alley. Don’t fool yourself.
And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. When their $1 million+ homes go into foreclosure, it will further devastate a housing market that is already on life support. I suspect that you’re visiting this board because you have more than a passing interest in the trajectory of the housing market?
Stop getting hung up on the type of person losing their job and look at the macro effect to the economy. When jobs are lost, EVERYONE loses. And the higher up the food chain the losses occur, the greater the fallout.
Get over your spite and look at the big picture.
February 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM #357747Participant[quote=davelj][quote=scaredycat]lawyer ad something to society.
it’s productive. imagine a society without a legal system. bad.
lawyers are good.[/quote]
How about “some” lawyers are good. Most are degreed overpaid paralegals – empty suits. Who would no more car jack someone than fly to the moon. Nope, I’m not worried about “lawyers gone bad” roaming the streets for victims. I’ve never met any that had the stomach for it. That’s why they choose to battle with each other via briefs. “Hand over that car, Sir, or I will inflict eggregious damage to your person with my genuine leather briefcase! And be hasty about it!!”[/quote]
Speaking as a lawyer, I know very well that some of my colleagues would, if desperate and hungry enough, take you down in a dark alley. Don’t fool yourself.
And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. When their $1 million+ homes go into foreclosure, it will further devastate a housing market that is already on life support. I suspect that you’re visiting this board because you have more than a passing interest in the trajectory of the housing market?
Stop getting hung up on the type of person losing their job and look at the macro effect to the economy. When jobs are lost, EVERYONE loses. And the higher up the food chain the losses occur, the greater the fallout.
Get over your spite and look at the big picture.
February 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM #357888Participant[quote=davelj][quote=scaredycat]lawyer ad something to society.
it’s productive. imagine a society without a legal system. bad.
lawyers are good.[/quote]
How about “some” lawyers are good. Most are degreed overpaid paralegals – empty suits. Who would no more car jack someone than fly to the moon. Nope, I’m not worried about “lawyers gone bad” roaming the streets for victims. I’ve never met any that had the stomach for it. That’s why they choose to battle with each other via briefs. “Hand over that car, Sir, or I will inflict eggregious damage to your person with my genuine leather briefcase! And be hasty about it!!”[/quote]
Speaking as a lawyer, I know very well that some of my colleagues would, if desperate and hungry enough, take you down in a dark alley. Don’t fool yourself.
And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. When their $1 million+ homes go into foreclosure, it will further devastate a housing market that is already on life support. I suspect that you’re visiting this board because you have more than a passing interest in the trajectory of the housing market?
Stop getting hung up on the type of person losing their job and look at the macro effect to the economy. When jobs are lost, EVERYONE loses. And the higher up the food chain the losses occur, the greater the fallout.
Get over your spite and look at the big picture.
February 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM #357919Participant[quote=davelj][quote=scaredycat]lawyer ad something to society.
it’s productive. imagine a society without a legal system. bad.
lawyers are good.[/quote]
How about “some” lawyers are good. Most are degreed overpaid paralegals – empty suits. Who would no more car jack someone than fly to the moon. Nope, I’m not worried about “lawyers gone bad” roaming the streets for victims. I’ve never met any that had the stomach for it. That’s why they choose to battle with each other via briefs. “Hand over that car, Sir, or I will inflict eggregious damage to your person with my genuine leather briefcase! And be hasty about it!!”[/quote]
Speaking as a lawyer, I know very well that some of my colleagues would, if desperate and hungry enough, take you down in a dark alley. Don’t fool yourself.
And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. When their $1 million+ homes go into foreclosure, it will further devastate a housing market that is already on life support. I suspect that you’re visiting this board because you have more than a passing interest in the trajectory of the housing market?
Stop getting hung up on the type of person losing their job and look at the macro effect to the economy. When jobs are lost, EVERYONE loses. And the higher up the food chain the losses occur, the greater the fallout.
Get over your spite and look at the big picture.
February 28, 2009 at 5:31 PM #358026Participant[quote=davelj][quote=scaredycat]lawyer ad something to society.
it’s productive. imagine a society without a legal system. bad.
lawyers are good.[/quote]
How about “some” lawyers are good. Most are degreed overpaid paralegals – empty suits. Who would no more car jack someone than fly to the moon. Nope, I’m not worried about “lawyers gone bad” roaming the streets for victims. I’ve never met any that had the stomach for it. That’s why they choose to battle with each other via briefs. “Hand over that car, Sir, or I will inflict eggregious damage to your person with my genuine leather briefcase! And be hasty about it!!”[/quote]
Speaking as a lawyer, I know very well that some of my colleagues would, if desperate and hungry enough, take you down in a dark alley. Don’t fool yourself.
And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. When their $1 million+ homes go into foreclosure, it will further devastate a housing market that is already on life support. I suspect that you’re visiting this board because you have more than a passing interest in the trajectory of the housing market?
Stop getting hung up on the type of person losing their job and look at the macro effect to the economy. When jobs are lost, EVERYONE loses. And the higher up the food chain the losses occur, the greater the fallout.
Get over your spite and look at the big picture.
February 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM #357450kewp
Participant[quote=partypup]And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. [/quote]
There is a finite supply of money.
If lawyers aren’t getting paid, someone else is. Which is fine by me.
Fire all the lawyers and pay everyone else twice as much. Sounds like a good deal to me!
February 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM #357752Participant[quote=partypup]And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. [/quote]
There is a finite supply of money.
If lawyers aren’t getting paid, someone else is. Which is fine by me.
Fire all the lawyers and pay everyone else twice as much. Sounds like a good deal to me!
February 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM #357893Participant[quote=partypup]And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. [/quote]
There is a finite supply of money.
If lawyers aren’t getting paid, someone else is. Which is fine by me.
Fire all the lawyers and pay everyone else twice as much. Sounds like a good deal to me!
February 28, 2009 at 6:10 PM #357924Participant[quote=partypup]And you’re forgetting that when highly-compensated professionals lose their jobs, the ripple effect in the economy is greater because their salaries were expended on a greater volume of goods and services than, say, a mechanic at a Chrysler dealership. [/quote]
There is a finite supply of money.
If lawyers aren’t getting paid, someone else is. Which is fine by me.
Fire all the lawyers and pay everyone else twice as much. Sounds like a good deal to me!
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