Fri
26
Jan '07
From Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge
NBA OR NFL?
- 36 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, repeat, 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 currently are defendants in lawsuits
- 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?
NBA or NFL ?
Give up yet? . . .
Neither, 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.
BUAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
Love it. if for nothing less than me thinking "hmmm, these numbers are way too low for how big those organizations are."
Congress FTW!
Well, that's interesting. Of course, we don't know how bad some of this really is. "19 have been accused of writing bad checks" doesn't tell us whether they actually wrote bad checks, nor when this happened. It's a lot different if a congress member intentionally wrote a bad check for say a mortgage payment than one of them wrote a bad check twenty years ago for a pizza when they were in college. Not that it's right to bounce checks on the pizza guy, but the raw statistic doesn't tell us much, does it?
But, it does show that we elect real human beings to represent us in office, even if we do want to hold them to pretty high standard.
jte