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36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
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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 currently are defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?

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.

You gotta pass this one on!

AND THEY JUST VOTED THEMSELVES $15,000 PER MONTH PENSION FOR LIFE AFTER SERVING ONLY ONE TERM IN CONGRESS!!


As much as it would fuel our distrust for the half-wits that (sometimes) warm the seats of the Congress, this one just isn't true. Here's the (poorly written) article in which this email finds its origins.

Analysis from Snopes.com:

The information isn't independently verifiable, since none of the people referenced is identified by name. (Why bother to conduct all that research but then not mention any names? One plausible answer is that doing so heads off libel lawsuits if the information proved to be inaccurate or false.)

The original article is now several years old (having been published in 1999) and even when first published didn't list any names or state when its information was collected, so there's no telling how many of the people referenced might still be in Congress.

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.

Lacking any specific context, some of these claims border on the silly. "Twenty-one [Congress members] are current defendants in various lawsuits, ranging from bad debts, disputes with business partners or other civil matters." How much significance should we place on such a vague statement in our litigious society, where just about anyone can find himself a defendant in a civil lawsuit over the most frivolous of matters (or nothing at all)?


If you read the original article, you'll notice that it doesn't mention anything about the $15,000 per month pension after only one term in office. That was just tacked on by some guy who likes to believe things that people just make up, see the analysis here.

Posted by Scott at 8:16 AM  

50 comments:

Although the article lacks certain important characteristics it articulates an important message to the American voters. Especially in a country where your character will be attacked on the political bases of your social disparity. The idea of locking people out of our society based on un-founded rumors and gossip while society members live freely in a Woodstock environment is playing out to look more like a communist Red Chinese Government than a Democracy !

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