"Can you imagine working for a company that has more than 500 employees...

[ShrewdLiberal]

with the following statistics?

29% have been accused of spousal abuse.

7% have been arrested for fraud.

19% have been accused of writing bad checks.

77 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two 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 were arrested for drunk driving during the last 18 months.

What organization is this? It's the 535 members of the United States Congress -- the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year to keep the rest of us in line!" -- Coffee News of Western New York, November 19th Edition, 2005.

[Lex]

1. Urban Legend type email from 1999.

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

"No names or dates are mentioned, of course, so trying to match individuals with the vague charges levelled in this text would be a fruitless task (especially since the composition of Congress changes at least every two years, and the piece is undated). In any case that effort would be pointless, for this article is nothing more than a cheap smear: no one in it is cited as actually having done something wrong, but merely of having been "arrested" or "accused," or being a "defendant," or having been "stopped." Isn't our system supposed to be based upon the presumption that a person is innocent until proved guilty?"

[ShrewdLiberal]

2. Thanks for the heads up.

I had no idea. I just received this in the mail today and thought it interesting. Now I know it's not true, or, at the most, just half truths. Interesting, nontheless.

[Lex]

3. Well the Republicans in Congress are a bunch of lying warmongerers

and even Bush and Cheney have like 5 or 6 Drunk Driving Arrests between them.

[oneold1-4u]

4. One must remember

There is never an honest judgment where there is no court! Very few politicians past or present have ever had to have a "day in court". They are usually considered immune to all types of criminal accusations, from beating wife and children to killing a person while driving drunk!

[tx_dem41]

5. Ummmm...or as noted in response #1, its an urban legend.n/t

[ddeclue]

6. That's nothing...

How about a company where the CEO has been arrested once for theft and twice for DUI and is a former alcholic and rumoured to also be a former coke addict?

How about a company where the CEO lied on his resume and hires unqualified buddies for important specialized jobs and as board members with the firm?

How about a company where the CEO has lied many times to the stockholders about a hostile takeover bid?

How about a company where the CEO failed to act promptly in two different emergencies when he had prior warning of these emergencies?

How about a company where the CEO has vastly padded his resume and appears to have no substantial work history prior to age 40?

How about a company where the CEO has made such poor financial decisions as to put it trillions of dollars into debt when it was on sound financial ground prior to his taking over?

Let's add to that a VP at the firm who is still working for another company in a clear conflict of interest, who has 3 DUI arrests of his own, and whose executive assistant is under investigation for leaking insider information as are numerous other members of the firm.

Hmm...What I wonder would we call that firm?

BUSHCO, Inc.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL