Representative Democracy? Yeah Right.
Max sent me this e-mail this morning. It represents just another reason why I am so frustrated with society (and society as reflected in our elected officials). More and more, government and people in power in general don’t represent me. In particular, look to the statistics about drug charges and drunk driving.
>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 spousal abuse
>*7 have been arrested for fraud
>*19 have been accused of writing bad checks
>*117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two 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 organization this is? Give up yet? 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.
>
>I rest my case.