An oldie, but still funny…

On the off chance there’s someone out there who hasn’t seen this (and with no claims for fact-checking the numbers), here’s something that arrived in the mail from my good buddy Paul this morning….

We are in deep trouble.

The population of this country is 300 million.

160 million are retired, and that leaves 140 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school, which leaves 55 million to do the work.

Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government, leaving 20 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with keeping us safe, and that leaves 17.2 million to do the work.

Take from that total the 15.8 million people who work for state and city governments, and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.

There are 1,211,998 people in prisons.  That leaves just two people to do the work.  That’s you and me, and there you are, sitting on your butt, reading the CSC blog.

Nice.  Real nice. 

DO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING?!!