Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank

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SEC staffers watched porn
as economy crashed
Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.
The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press. . . .
A senior attorney at the SEC’s Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. . . .
Seventeen of the employees were “at a senior level,” earning salaries of up to $222,418.

And so, to prevent further financial-sector shenanigans, Democrats want to create new regulations and hire more federal bureaucrats to surf porn at taxpayer expense.

Makes you wonder who has more influence on Capitol Hill these days: Goldman Sachs or porn-industry lobbyists?

(Hat-tip: Memeorandum.)

32 comments

  10. I see Hot Air is using the Nero fiddling comment. That is okay, I steal stuff from Hot Air all the time.

  11. I see Hot Air is using the Nero fiddling comment. That is okay, I steal stuff from Hot Air all the time.

  12. I see Hot Air is using the Nero fiddling comment. That is okay, I steal stuff from Hot Air all the time.

  24. McGehee: Damn good point.

    Dave C: Best post title I’ve seen in a long time [excluding my own, of course…oh and Stacy’s].

    kansas: Folks in Kansas would know [no protests: my mother’s from Kans-ass].

  25. McGehee: Damn good point.

    Dave C: Best post title I’ve seen in a long time [excluding my own, of course…oh and Stacy’s].

    kansas: Folks in Kansas would know [no protests: my mother’s from Kans-ass].

  26. McGehee: Damn good point.

    Dave C: Best post title I’ve seen in a long time [excluding my own, of course…oh and Stacy’s].

    kansas: Folks in Kansas would know [no protests: my mother’s from Kans-ass].

  28. I’m outraged to find out they were surfing porn on company time. Folks, torrents will run perfectly wwell underneath most applications so you can get on with your work.

    Um, somebody told me that…

  29. I’m outraged to find out they were surfing porn on company time. Folks, torrents will run perfectly wwell underneath most applications so you can get on with your work.

    Um, somebody told me that…

  30. I’m outraged to find out they were surfing porn on company time. Folks, torrents will run perfectly wwell underneath most applications so you can get on with your work.

    Um, somebody told me that…

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