They aren't all Crooks

I have a friend who claims all elected officials are crooks.

They aren’t…  but lets run some numbers.

According to the latest statistics I can find there are 511,039 elected officials in the USA.

Statistics also show that 1 in every 15 (6.6%) people serve time in state or federal prison.

Since elected officials are representative of the general public that means of every 511,039 serving in elected office at any one time … 33,728 of them will also serve prison time.

So, while they aren’t all crooks, with that many of them making the news for all the wrong reasons it can seem that way at times.

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