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George P. Radanovich: It does harken back to personal responsibility and what a privilege it is to live in a country such as America that was…

On the recordMarch 14, 1995
It does harken back to personal responsibility and what a privilege it is to live in a country such as America that was based on the principles of self government, and I think that somewhere in some good book it says, do not be so anxious to be suing your neighbor, and I think that the law system in this land, the court system in this land, really is a privilege, and I think that when you abuse a privilege, you end up getting restrictions on the privilege or the privilege gets taken away. And I admire the fact that the Democrats for so many years defended the right to sue and the open legal system that we have had in the past, but I think what we are seeing right now is such an abuse of the system, and when you, through lack of personal responsibility and personal accountability for your own actions, you begin to abuse the system, you have to clamp down restrictions on that system and, to me, it is a perfect example, again, of where we have lost the idea of personal responsibility and personal accountability in this country. Stop suing each other. We have sued each other too much. Now because of that and because we have placed such a burden on the system, we have got to clamp down on it. I think that is basically it.
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George P. Radanovich
California

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Discussing the need for personal responsibility and the abuse of the legal system.

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