Salon has a lengthy book review of The Eagle’s Shadow by Mark Hertsgaard.
I experienced first-hand what he is talking about in his book, albeit on a limited scale. The article seems balanced and quite in line with what I experienced myself. I must confess that my limited mandarin vocabulary includes « I’m not American, I’m Canadian », that would always buy me a smile… Anyways, gotta read it.
Y l’ont-tu l’affaire?
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. These same group of idiots crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. I hope there is a lot of overlapping in those groups…
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