Government

[Nickolai Naydenov]

Received this email bellow, found interesting so I decided to share it. Not sure how accurate it is but I can believe it.

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 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

373 in total or approximately 70%
Can you guess which organization this is?
It's the 535 members of the SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT -
(The same group that crank out hundreds of new
laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line!)

[Petrichor]

This mail has been in circulation for many years - so the stats would probably be a bit outdated. HOWEVER, it probably is still a fair reflection of today in any case.

[Nickolai Naydenov]

Well apologies for posting an old email, for me it was new. i just received another one and still can't stop laughing, here it is:



* * *You, *ABSOLUTELY, HAVE TO READ, IT, TO * *B-E-L-I-E-V-E * *IT'S
HAPPENING *IN TODAY IN 2012.!.!.?.!.?

* * *KwaZulu-Natal MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs,

Nomsa Dube, called on the national department of science and technology to
investigate the causes of lightning after seven people died in lightning
strikes.


* * *"We will do an investigation and talk to the department of science and

technology on what is the cause of the lightning, and if it only happened to

the previously disadvantaged as I have never seen any white people being
struck by lightning" said Dube. She was visiting Mpumazi in Eshowe where
seven people from two families died after being struck by lightning on
Sunday. *"Scientists from the department could perhaps help us and come up
with instruments that could help community members protect themselves
against lightning. The department has dealt with floods and fires, but
lightning is new to us," said Dube.

* * *Our country is clearly in excellent hands!

[IanF]

Parliament has 400 members so when I get emails saying more than this you know someone has just edited this probably from a US email.
Also always look at snopes here is the original from May 2007 http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp

[Nickolai Naydenov]

Wow sorry for the wrong information haha... I can bet that by now the stats are up