On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:24:33 +0900, Ernest Schaal
<eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:

>> I don't have either deep resentment or envy, just disdain. I guess you pick
>> your Canadian friends carefully

>Probably it has something to do with most of them being educated
>professional types. Many of my Canadian friends are fellow lawyers. It is
>usually the lower classes who bash the States because of their own
>self-inadequacies.

Lawyers in the USA are, for the most part, in a higher class by salary
alone. Chasing ambulances and litigating every frivolous lawsuit
imaginable to make a buck are far from noble ways to make a living. 

There are good lawyers, thankfully. They are the ones that get into
the field to make a difference and not just to line their pockets or
raise their social status.

We should send more American lawyers to Canada and Japan (and Iraq and
the moon). Good riddance.

Raj