Dennis Kucinich

Sameer Puri

14 years ago

Did you hear? Dennis Kucinich, a politician from the great state of Ohio, is suing the House cafeteria for $150,000 because he bit down on an olive pit and broke a tooth. Now it seems to me that I need to raise my fees - I only charge $250 for an extraction. His dentist must be charging a lot more to be able to get that kind of settlement.

All kidding aside, the sheer audacity of this supposed leader, and I use that term loosely, is appalling. What kind of a precedent does this set for the people of this country? That if you have an accident - yes, it was an accident that broke his tooth - someone should be accountable? Whatever happened to dumb luck? Sometimes things just go bad and there is no one to blame; sometimes life is not perfect.

It's bad enough that our elected politicians have spent us into oblivion. It's bad enough that people are looking more and more for handouts and for bailouts instead of trying to work hard on their own to provide for themselves and their families. Now we have to deal with frivolous lawsuits like this. In the end, who pays? You and I in the form of higher taxes and higher insurance premiums.

Political affiliations aside, these types of lawsuits are just bad for us all.