Is it the NBA or the NFL? No, it's Congress!

Well, well, well...


I found this quiz on another site and thought I'd share it here. What can I say... it was "in print" so I believed it. The moreso because I don't have a high opinion of politicians.

So I posted it here.... then I decided to go see where it came from to see the corrobative details.

But there are none.

This "quiz" is 10 years old.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp



Is It 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, and



84
have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year


Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet? . . Scroll down,


Neither,
it's the 435 members of the
United States Congress

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The point I'm making is that I think most people who see these types of "quizzes" distributed - with no authors name, no dates on them, no links so people can go see the proof for themselves - are all too often believed. It doesn't even occur to people to verify the facts for themselves - whether it be about politicians, or the actors and actresses whose doings so many people are obsessed over...

On the other hand...it certainly wouldn't surprise me to find out that a goodly percentage of our 435 members of congress did have some of those charges hanging over them... after all the vast majority of them are lawyers....