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 spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
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?
It's the 535 members of the British Houses of Parliament, The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line!! What a farce !
Originally posted by eamon oI've seen this before, many times.
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 spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad cheques
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to s out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line!! What a farce !
Whether or not it is true, it refers to the US and not the UK.
The US has 535 legislators in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The British House of Commons has 646 members.
The House of Lords has 751.
Originally posted by reinfeldActually, I think that this thing started close to a decade ago and originally referred to the National Basketball Association.
..i have seen this before...it refers to the general assembly of the united nations..except you have to add some professional killers dressed up as
foreign presidents and premiers...
Someone doctored it up to refer to Congress and then someone else changed Congress to Parliament without correcting the member numbers.
Another warning to not believe everything you read on the internet.
Originally posted by Red NightThat makes sense. I'm pretty sure that if 84 MPs had been done for drunk driving in the last year we'd hear a lot more about it.
Actually, I think that this thing started close to a decade ago and originally referred to the National Basketball Association.
Someone doctored it up to refer to Congress and then someone else change Congress to Parliament without correcting the member numbers.
Another warning to not believe everything you read on the internet.
PRETTY FUNNY:
If you copy the list and put it into your web browser, you will get an incredible number of hits.
Someone claims that the list applies to almost every Parilament in the world.
Here is a link to a site claiming Australia, with the same 535 members (there are only 226 upper and lower seats in OZ. Perhaps the most frightening thing might be that people have no idea how many legislators their country has.)
http://www.bestoday.com.au/sick/archives/000620can_you_guess_who_fits_the_bill.php