The United States is the only country in the world that has more lawyers than engineers. Not only that, but I recently read that there are more students currently in law school in the U.S. than there are licensed lawyers, so the trend will continue. Starting in the early 80's most mathimatically inclined college students began studying computers or finance since those feilds paid better. Today most of the engineers younger than 45 in the U.S. are from foriegn countries.

I am currently a self employed structural engineer and my 3 biggest costs in order of cost are as follows:

Taxes (To Pay for the Lawyer Polititians)

Insurance (To Protect me from the Private Lawyers)

Mortgage (To Pay the bankers that created fiat money legalized by the lawyer politians)

In 1983 I actually worked with a guy just out of school who had a double major in engineering and law. He came to work at the large engineering firm I worked at for the purpose of learning enough engineering so that he could better sue engineers once he started his law practice. Real nice guy! The guy was miserable to be around and a pretty bad engineer too.