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?
2007-08-03 10:26:27 · 10 answers · asked by lovepink317537 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
ALASPADA> don't give it up just yet!!!!
2007-08-03 10:27:01 · update #1
ME2----- It would take too long to do that!
Yep... you guessed it Congress!!!
2007-08-03 10:38:17 · update #2
Oh, darn... I didn't know it was old!!!
I suck, oh well!!!!! Still a good point!!!!!
2007-08-03 10:39:16 · update #3
halestrm- of course none of them were convicted, they ARE pretty high up in the food chain... Anyways, I don't really care, someone sent it to me and I thought it was interesting. Im not really into all of the political stuff.
2007-08-03 10:42:54 · update #4
Congress
your list is a year or two old (when the republicans were the majority)
but that doesn't mean things have gotten better.
2007-08-03 10:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK, snopes doesn't agree with you says this is an urban legend. Sorry.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp
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.
Variations: Later versions of this item changed the subjects from "members of Congress" to members of Parliament from Canada, India, or the UK, or to players from the NFL and NBA.
2007-08-03 10:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by halestrm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is congress but can you prove this? Even in 1999 when this was written they didn't prove that this was infact true. Anyway I am not sticking up for them but this is a completely different Congress now and these numbers could be way more or way less.
2007-08-03 10:38:56 · answer #3 · answered by nashua_princess 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Congress.
Do they each spend about $50 billion in tax payer dollars each year?
2007-08-03 10:31:53 · answer #4 · answered by freedom first 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Those statistics are out of date -- but a good general indicator of the problems in Congress.
2007-08-03 10:30:46 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Congress, now post the names of our fine men and women that set such a fine example for us to follow
2007-08-03 10:28:57 · answer #6 · answered by jean 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The White House and its corrupt thugs.
2007-08-03 10:29:35 · answer #7 · answered by Mary W 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I bet it's police officers.
2007-08-03 10:30:22 · answer #8 · answered by Hillary 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The NBA?
2007-08-03 10:29:45 · answer #9 · answered by Miroslav Duric 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they do lie too
2007-08-03 10:49:28 · answer #10 · answered by joeal1234 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋