I Know This if Old But It Is Interesting

[OLE SARG]

COMPANY STATS


This is frightening! Can you imagine working for a company that has a

little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

*29 have been accused of spousal abuse

*7 have been arrested for fraud

*19 have been accused of writing bad checks

*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

*3 have done time for assault

*71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

*14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

*8 have been arrested for shoplifting

*21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

*84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year



Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that

crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us

in line.

KINDA FUNNY, HUH??????
SEMPER FI,

[vmfn513]

Its a sad commentary on how low our society has fallen to tolerate such crap
in congress. My mistake! The people voted them into office.
Sorry...its not funny to me.
SEMPER FI!!

[davblay]

And the people keep on re-electing them! Only in America!

[GySgtRet]

The sad part is we trust these so called ladies and gentelmen to be our representation of our government for us. We should trust them but it is difficult to do this when they are corrupted so easily. I say term limits for senate, congres , chief justices, president, vice president the whole schabang. They cannot be trusted. It is sad that we cannot trust them.

[FistFu68]

THIS NEED'S TOO BE BROUGHT OUT IN THE PUBLIC LITE,LIKE POSTED IN THE TOWN HALL.HOW MANY VOTERS DO YOU THINK,ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THE MAGGOTTS THEY ELECTED;HAD COMMITED THIS TYPE OF CHIT?

[Big Jim]

THIS NEED'S TOO BE BROUGHT OUT IN THE PUBLIC LITE,LIKE POSTED IN THE TOWN HALL.HOW MANY VOTERS DO YOU THINK,ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THE MAGGOTTS THEY ELECTED;HAD COMMITED THIS TYPE OF CHIT?

THIER INFORMATION SHOULD BE BROADCAST TO THE PUBLIC SO ALL CAN SEE WHAT THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE DOING WITH OUR TRUST AND OUR MONEY!!!!!!!!

[3077India]

This is what Snopes.com has to say about the article.

A few points about this piece:

*The information isn't independently verifiable, since none of the people referenced is identified by name. (Why bother to conduct all that research but then not mention any names? One plausible answer is that doing so heads off libel lawsuits if the information proved to be inaccurate or false.)

*The original article is now several years old (having been published in 1999) and even when first published didn't list any names or state when its information was collected, so there's no telling how many of the people referenced might still be in Congress.

*The list is long on vague innuendo and woefully short of hard facts. It describes members of Congress who have supposedly been "arrested," "accused," or "defendants," but doesn't mention a single case (anonymous or otherwise) of any of them having been convicted (or even tried) on criminal charges, no matter how minor, or of having been found liable in a civil lawsuit. We're told that "117 members of the House and Senate have run at least two businesses each that went bankrupt, often leaving business partners and creditors holding the bag," but get no detail about who these members were, the nature of the businesses that failed, why the businesses failed, or who was left "holding the bag" (and for how much). We're also told that "twenty-nine members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse in either criminal or civil proceedings," but find nothing about any of them actually being convicted or ordered to pay civil damages.

*Lacking any specific context, some of these claims border on the silly. "Twenty-one [Congress members] are current defendants in various lawsuits, ranging from bad debts, disputes with business partners or other civil matters." How much significance should we place on such a vague statement in our litigious society, where just about anyone can find himself a defendant in a civil lawsuit over the most frivolous of matters (or nothing at all)? And "seventy-one of them have credit reports so bad they can't get an American Express card"? Based on what — irresponsible overspending, absent-mindedly making a few late credit card payments, or simply being the innocent victim of a credit reporting agency screw-up? Once again, nothing in the original enables the reader to make any such distinction.

This is merely FYI.

[OLE SARG]

If an updated list were published, it would probably be WORSE than the old one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEMPER FI,