Unless System Is Workable,Nothing Corrects Itself

 Dear Citizen,                                                                                         January 19th, 2015

         Former board member of Goldman Sachs and Proctor Gamble, Rajat K. Gupta, was convicted in June 2012 on insider trading charges.

         Gupta's legal defense fees amounted to nearly thirty million dollars. This outrageous and unconscionable fee was revealed by two anonymous individuals who had direct knowledge of this case but were not authorized to discuss it publicly. Like so many others cases in which wholesale debauchery and plunder takes place,many other aspects of this case were cloaked in secret.

         The former chief executive of Enron,Jeff Skilling,spent about $70 million throughout his trial. Years of his appeals have only added to that cost.

         Obviously attorneys and other apologists will rationalize this by stating that cases are complex and that attorneys are needed to sort through reams of information and documents to build a case.

         The rebuttal to that is if the people have a legal system that makes inherently simple matters complicated to the extent of generating that much profit and perverse control for the legal profession, then it is a system that must not be condoned but rather condemned. The system should thus be deemed as both dysfunctional and tyrannical and therefore not capable of being mended or repaired. It must be replaced.

         The "cancer" that the legal profession spreads does not stay confined within the circles of the legal profession itself. It spreads to all fields,profession,trades, and all walks of life. This "cancer" causes such alterations and distortions are very noticeable but not so traceable. 

         Outrageous health care costs, higher education costs, and again exorbitant financial costs have

enriched many at the expense of the general good.  Numerous pencil pushers and paper shufflers such as healthcare and corporate bureaucrats have become millionaires because of the protectionism and monopolistic systems that the "lawyer-lobbyist" regime has provided. Medical specialists are commanding salaries many times more than any competitive free enterprise would allow. This is the reason why so many Americans are opting for medical care on foreign soil. Now that the embargo against Cuba may be lifted, many cancer-stricken Americans can be effectively treated by that nation's state-of-the-art facilities. Many Americans are also looking abroad for higher education pursuits. That is a sad testament because at one time the rest of the world took strident glances at America's higher education system for is value-creation and cost-effectiveness.

         On its own, nothing will ever correct itself unless the system is workable. To restore governance and society back to its functional state, Americans need again a constitutional amendment that bans same hands governance.

                                                        Very Truly Yours,

                                                         Harsha Sankar

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