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Health care bills, it seems, have to make sure that the trial lawyer will always have the means and the money. How else would the left side of the complex society we have get their barrels full of campaign contributions.

The Washington Examiner got this story correct, but why would they not?  Habit is so easy to detect and tally. As for me, at times such as this, I like to fall back on the words of an old, old friend to all of us:

THE BENEFIT OF GOING TO LAW

by: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

• WO beggars traveling along,

  One blind, the other lame.

  Pick’d up an oyster on the way,

  To which they both laid claim:

  The matter rose so high, that they

  Resolv’d to go to law,

  As often richer fools have done,

  Who quarrel for a straw.

  A lawyer took it straight in hand,

  Who knew his business was

  To mind nor one nor t’other side,

  But make the best o’ the cause,

  As always in the law’s the case;

  So he his judgment gave,

  And lawyer-like he thus resolv’d

  What each of them should have;

  Blind plaintif, lame defendant, share

  The friendly laws impartial care,

  A shell for him, a shell for thee,

  The middle is the lawyer’s fee.

“The Benefit of Going to Law” is reprinted from Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1733.