Seeing the
Forest on tort reform:
Our legal system used to be about judges and juries of citizens like us deciding cases on their
merits. But this hasn’t always been working out to the profitable advantage of the big moneyed
interests. So they’re working on changing the system so instead, judges and juries are limited
by new “reform” laws. What this boils down to is, if you’re a citizen on the jury, and you think
that the family of the 22- year-old who received brain damage because the company saved $0.25 per
unit on their product ought to get more “pain and suffering” compensation than $5,000 per year for
the 50 remaining years they’ll have to care for the brain-damaged victim – well that will be just
too bad for you on the jury because you won’t be allowed to award more! That’s what a
“cap” of $250,000 means! It means that the corporations have rigged the system so
the judge and jury are not allowed to do what you think the case merits, because it cuts into
corporate profits, and might keep the CEO from getting his $50 million that year. (Yes, of course
I mean HIS.)