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I saw this in a U.K. interview about Scalia's view of the 2000 election fiasco:
Justice Scalia said he thought that the United States was "over-lawed", leading to too many lawyers in the country."I don't think our legal system should be that complex. I think that any system that requires that many of the country's best minds, and they are the best minds, is too complex."If you look at the figures, where does the top of the class in college go to? It goes into law. They don't go into teaching. Now I love the law, there is nothing I would rather do but it doesn't produce anything."
Interesting because it is true - it doesn't really produce anything but consumes a number of bright minds who could be doing something else. And these minds work to develop an even more complex system of laws and government than we really ought to have.
It is the old saying all over again. “Bureaucracy begets still more bureaucracy”. It is also why the government will never get smaller, There is something wrong with a country when the national government is the single largest employer even when the military and law enforcement is subtracted from the government workforce
