This has to be a hoax...right?

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FUNNY & SAD AT THE SAME TIME
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 of
idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep
the rest of us in line.

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Now I recieved this in an e-mail today, There was no reference to support any of this.
Does anyone here have any reference info to support any of this?

This has got to be false and deceptive information...isn't it?

I seriously doubt that this information is FALSE. I have absolutely no respect for those who run the US Govt!!!

WOW! That is too funny! ROFLMAO. Let us know if you find a source to verify if this is true or not. I haven't heard anything about it.

I have heard rumors that things like that are true. In one of the U.S. Government classes I'm currently taking, our instructor read off some statements similar to those posted here. I was apalled to learn that many of the things, such as drunk driving and spousal abuse, are true! That's crazy. Should these people really be representing us?

Umm, after doing a little bit of research, none of them have been arrested or charged with drunk driving within the last year. Some of those are true, but most of them are false.

i hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it is possible that they were pulled over and it just never made the papers, records etc because they dont want the masses to know their leaders are breaking their own laws.
i have a feeling that a lot of them think that since they make the laws, they are above them.

lol, hoax or not, i think you should've posted this in the humor catagory.

Hi aeallison
Its a fraud the exact same e mail is flouting around South Africa claiming the stats belong to a
the S.A. goverment :)
Regards
Mike

Give us some reference titanmike, I am sure it will be interesting...:D

Hi
I will try to find it. By the way this same bit of news was reported in one of the sunday newspapers about six months ago just before a local election. So i suspect some body of using it to discredit the ANC
Regards
Mike

these are the results of a study by capitol hill blue to be found here:

http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?...view&record=64

Thank you Tedob1 this is just the kind of stuff I was expecting to see. Lets see if we can round up some more facts on this subject, I think we're on a roll here. :deal:

This is what I found so far, after using the words "criminals in Congress" for searching.
Some of the strange ones...

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REP. BARNEY FRANK (D-MA): Accessory to a male prostitute who ran a whorehouse in their Washington townhouse.

REP. JAMES MORAN (D-VA): Charged with spousal abuse, and assault and battery. A regular instigator of bar fights while mayor of Alexandria, VA, his position made him immune to arrest. Once said he thought about becoming a boxer because "I like to hit people."

REP. MEL REYNOLDS (D-IL): In 1995 was convicted of having sex with a minor and obstructing justice.

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More here

jeez guys...for a bunch of computer geeks you'd think you would atleast know to check snopes for urban legends!

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

its got a big thing on how the statistics are mostly untrue, and the ones that are even semi-accurate are incredibly vague.

one of the teachers read that to us a few weeks ago.... he said it appeared accurate, dunno... funny stuff, yet scary that those are the people deciding if we go to war or not, although the author could be exaggerating the truth very easily, for instance shop-lifting, "stealing a piece of gum at 7 years old from the store" or something to that extent, you can see how it cross-applies to the rest.

iwoudent dopubt any of it, considering the government goes t omany lengths to defend the people included in it. i wouldent doubt that they all get a baggie of coke given to them by the security guards right before any meeting they have.

*sigh*

let me expound a bit on what i said before.

have any of you ever been pulled over only to be asked "have you had anything to drink today?" when infact you hadn't? if you had you would just have put yourself into the catagory of "having been pulled over for drunk driving".

furthermore, the rest is just accusations. watch this:
i hereby acuse all members of congress of being not only serial rapists, but also pedophiles. better slip that one into the next version of this worthless email, because now they have all been officially acused of said crimes!

8*B@LL, I think you are missing the point here, what I am asking for in this thread are facts, REAL proof that our leaders are criminals...or not. We all know that most hoaxes are based on facts, it might just be that penny candy taken when one was 5 or 6 years old, it might also be that someone here is a cop who arrested one of them for being a pedophile. Bottom line, Monsieur 8*B@LL is if you feel so strongley about protecting the accused then give us some facts, I am sure we would rather see truth....

Viva La USA


<edit>how much would you pay snopes to discredit a written and circulated document that harms your career???</edit>

Just a quick post to say Monsieur is the right way to spell it in french.

Thanks for the correction Scorp666, sometimes me fingers donna type what me mind is thinkin...;)


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i originally found those stats in a cool jokes site, that i linked to in a post about santa. too many jokes there to quote them all. the link again
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/nevsdis...esarchive.html

also featuring:
The President's Test
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The LAPD, The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch.
The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!