America F*ck yeah!

EOA_Mushy

Ruling the world.....

* 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 organisation this is?
Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

casanova_kid

give us the Dail stats.

danniemcq

i'll drop them over to you in a brown envelope later

monkeyfudge

EOA_Mushy wrote:

* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...

I wouldn't like to see the number for that for the Dail. The universe could possibly implode when you wrote it down.

oh wait.. they don't get arrested do they?

mickymg2003

...Coming again to save the motherf*ckin Day Yeah!!!

I'm not surprised by some of them stats.

robinph

Probably the only unusual statistic for a random bunch of over 500 people is the number that have bankrupted at least 2 buisinesses. The rest of it would probably not be too far off the numbers that you'd get from quizzing a bunch of random blokes walking down the street.

Saruman

Yes however they are not random blokes walking down the street.. they are people running the most power country in the world!!

Guy:Incognito

These were posted a few times last year at least. So if 84 were arrested for drink driving teh last year or two, they must be the same 84 that were arrested in the last year up to now.

DukeDredd

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

junkyard

We'll never see true statistics here because the b*****ds never get caught.

StupidLikeAFox

Ah democracy.....

Sparky

i thought this was all Bush's record.

Chucky the tree

how do you indirectly bankrupt a business?

Sam Vimes

Chucky the tree wrote:

how do you indirectly bankrupt a business?

for example there was this bloke who sold really cheap jewellery in england and was making massive profits. he was giving a class on why he was so successful and he called the stuff "crap" and was bankrupt in a few months. thats how you indirectly bankrupt a business

Exon

The whole world is FVCKED! These are the people blowing half the world up...

Patricide

Best thread ive seen in ages, time to print that information out and stick it on my wall and smile that i live in ireland.

DapperGent

Patricide wrote:

Best thread ive seen in ages, time to print that information out and stick it on my wall and smile that i live in ireland.

Did you not read the snopes link which explained what a load of rubbish it was?

daveirl

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Lirange

Patricide wrote:

Best thread ive seen in ages, time to print that information out and stick it on my wall and smile that i live in ireland.

Best thread in ages? Oi. ?!!

Tis a marvelous thing that Ireland's politicians are singularly known for their universal chastity, honesty, and sobriety.

Only in America indeed.

Sam Vimes

daveirl wrote:

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its funny that you posted the same thing as someone else while telling people they should read the posts before theirs

Willymuncher

Patricide wrote:

Best thread ive seen in ages, time to print that information out and stick it on my wall and smile that i live in ireland.

I don't know if thats anything to smile about to be honest, we have a huge amount of corruption here too...

Anyway, I wouldn't believe half of what that says.

CiaranC

Commander Vimes wrote:

its funny that you posted the same thing as someone else while telling people they should read the posts before theirs

He clearly re-posted the link for people who missed it...

Killaqueen!!!

heard it before

astrofool

I'm sure the Dáil had a similar record till Liam Lawlor died...