One of the funniest lawyer jokes I've heard was about the engineer who was sent to hell by mistake.
Typically, he couldn't leave well enough alone and soon had Satan fixed up with cold running water as well as hot, "fired up" an air-conditioning system and generally was improving the place.
When God got wind of the mistake, he insisted Satan return him to Heaven. When, for obvious reasons Satan refused, God threatened to sue.
Of course Satan wasn't terribly worried. "God," he said. "Where are you going to get a lawyer?"
It may not be the best segue to this article in Business Week recently (can you tell I'm behind on my reading??). But having an engineer son I'm well aware that their brains do indeed work differently from those of lawyers.
And what's true of the US Congress & politicians is also sadly true for the Bahamas ... most of them are lawyers. Without people who understand how the world works (store owners, entrepeneurs, hoteliers, indeed engineers) in Government very little that's rational comes out of Parliament - or Congress, or the Diet, or Las Cortes or whatever it's called in your home country.
What say?
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