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In article <656@jclyde.UUCP>, john@jclyde.UUCP (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes:
}You have hit upon the problem.  We have way to many damned lawyers and MBAs.
}These are the geeks that write the laws and interpret them.  They get so
}caught up in the complexity of their laws that the rest of us have a difficult
}time deciphering them.  All of you lawyers and MBA types feel free to flame,
}I'm a soon to be Petroleum Engineer (UT Austin '88).  What we need are more
}engineers who know how to make things work, not a bunch of marketing and
}"legalese" idiots.

About a year ago, someone had something along the following lines in his/her 
.sig:

        Engineers:Lawyers   Japan 400:1   USA 1:400

I also recall seeing somewhere that the US (with ~6% of the world's 
population) has 2/3 of the world's lawyers.

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