COMPANY STATS: the United States Congress

[Imhotep]

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.

 

[QueEx]

I saw something like that (looks like the same numbers) several years ago in one of those chain-like emails. Since the email didn't name names or state which period or number of years it supposedly covered, I couldn't check it to see if it was fact, fiction or a little bit of both.

 

[thoughtone]

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.

How many are republicans? Tom Delay, Randy Cunningham, Bob Ney are gone. Don't worry, the federal prosecutors are doing their job to clean them out, if Bush and Gonzales don’t remove them first. Republicans Don Young and John Doolittle are next.

You think corporations are more moral and have more legally pure employees? I would contend that corporate leadership is just as corrupted given the amount of money they make.

 

[Fuckallyall]

Yeah, this is several years old, and from what I remember, is cumulative. So to be fair, we are not talking about 500 but at least a few thousand people.