>Hmm. Snip from the link you provided:
>It originated in 1999 in the US, on a libertarian website called Capitol Hill Blue - the giveaway is the "little over 500", the size of the US House and Senate combined - and similar variants have previously been found in Canada and India. The claims weren't true in the US and they are certainly not true in the UK.
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>Update: oops - I only saw this as a reply to me and answered assuming it had come from the OP. Sorry.....
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>>http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/mar/20/mpsincorruptionshocker
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>>>This is unbelievable, but can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics.
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>>>29 have been accused of spouse abuse
>>> 7 have been arrested for fraud
>>> 9 have been accused of writing bad cheque's
>>>17 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 drink driving in the last year
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>>>And collectively, this year alone, they have cost the British tax payer £92,993,748 in expenses!!!
>>>Which organization is this ?
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>>>It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us inline.
>>>What a bunch of bastards we have running our country - it says it all.. And just to top all that they now have the best 'corporate' pension scheme in the country!!
>>>If you agree that this is an appalling state of affairs, please pass it on to everyone you know
>>>
>>>
>>>And people say the US has problems.

Have those people form a line to the right, I have a gift for them.