[Newspoetry] In honor of Super Tuesday (fwd)

[Wendy Edwards]

Would you hire any of these bums? 
  
Can you imagine working at the following company? It has a little over 500
employees with the following statistics.
 
 *	29 have been accused of spousal abuse 
 
 *	7 have been arrested for fraud 
 
 *	19 have been accused of writing bad checks 
 
 *	117 have bankrupted at least two businesses 
 
 *	3 have been arrested for assault 
 
 *	71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 
 
 *	14 have been arrested for drug related charges 
 
 *	8 have been arrested for shoplifting 
 
 *	21 are current defendants in lawsuits 
 
 *	In 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving
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It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that
perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep
the rest of us in line.