Billions of dollars a year and millions of hours of productivity are being wasted because of what our government and our society has progressed into. Nobody is personally responsible for their actions anymore and someone else is always at fault. Common sense and personal accountability have been removed from the U.S.A.. We now have frivolous lawsuits clogging up our court systems, unnecessary and expensive insurance policies commonplace along with intrusive bureaucratic protections and regulations for almost every individual and business.  

Here are some examples of The United States of America in 2009:

warning labels and symbols on coffee cups that the contents may cause discomfort or harm if spilled onto a person, chain saws that use pages upon pages of paper and numerous warning labels to warn of the harm or even possibly death that may occur, if used improperly, doctors giving pap smears to 80 year old women to meet the requirements of their malpractice insurance.

In the simplest form of resolving this very complicated and expensive problem, change the Tort Laws to be; If a plaintiffs attorney (not the client or the defense) loses their legal action, the filing attorney of record is required by law to pay for all court costs and expenses incurred with the legal action.
 
This change will still guarantee and protect every citizens right to represent themselves in a court of law without the risk of a penalty (the financial liability only applies to the plaintiffs attorney of record). What it will do is put the ownership and credibility of any legal action entered into our court system, upon the licensed attorney representing the case. As an officer of the court, both State and Federal, the individual attorney would now be required to risk and spend (if they lose) their own finances in the process. As it stands today, all of the risk, exposure and expense falls upon the insurance companies, product providers and tax payers, while the reward goes to the attorney. Attorneys filing legal actions today only have to calculate the value of their time vs. the probability of a settlement, not the true cost of their actions. 

This one change alone will save Americans hundreds of billions of dollars per year and will stop a majority of the legal fishing expeditions we read about everyday. Our courts will be freed up once again to hear the cases that actually belong in a court of law and allow the process to be more timely and efficient. Additionally, many of our industries and individuals can get back to their lives and businesses at hand without dedicating so much of their time and resources for defensive strategies. 

In our free society there is a need to have product and service guidelines, responsibilities and regulations. There also has to be a point of common sense, responsibility and cost that we stop protecting ourselves from ourselves and assume individual ownership and accountability again. We have long crossed that line and common sense with personal responsibility must be restored. As our President, I will lead this reform.


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                                                              Reduce Government
                                                               Miller for President
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                                                                 Austin, Mn. 55912