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Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank

Posted on | April 22, 2010 | 32 Comments

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.)

Category: Corruption, Crime, Economics, humor, Scandal, Sex

Comments

32 Responses to “Your Tax Dollars at Work Wank”

  1. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 5:21 am

    Is that the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned?

  2. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 5:21 am

    Is that the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned?

  3. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 12:21 am

    Is that the equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned?

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  7. Dell
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

    Breaking! SEC changes name to SEX.

    (Porn)Film at 11:00!

  8. Dell
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

    Breaking! SEC changes name to SEX.

    (Porn)Film at 11:00!

  9. Dell
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 7:51 am

    Breaking! SEC changes name to SEX.

    (Porn)Film at 11:00!

  10. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

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

  11. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 1:20 pm

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

  12. Joe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:20 am

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

  13. McGehee
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 1:27 pm

    They do less damage when they’re surfing porn than when they’re doing their phony-baloney jobs.

  14. McGehee
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:27 am

    They do less damage when they’re surfing porn than when they’re doing their phony-baloney jobs.

  15. kc2
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

    Folks, these employees WERE NOT FIRED. They were “counseled” and “censured.”

  16. kc2
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 9:41 am

    Folks, these employees WERE NOT FIRED. They were “counseled” and “censured.”

  17. Dave C
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

    This is what I came up with: The Economy Was Abhorrent While The SEC Abused Bit Torrent

  18. Dave C
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

    This is what I came up with: The Economy Was Abhorrent While The SEC Abused Bit Torrent

  19. Dave C
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 12:05 pm

    This is what I came up with: The Economy Was Abhorrent While The SEC Abused Bit Torrent

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  21. kansas
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

    Fiddling was probably slang for whacking off back in Nero’s day.

  22. kansas
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 6:53 pm

    Fiddling was probably slang for whacking off back in Nero’s day.

  23. kansas
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

    Fiddling was probably slang for whacking off back in Nero’s day.

  24. Bob Belvedere
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:40 pm

    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. Bob Belvedere
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:40 pm

    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. Bob Belvedere
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 3:40 pm

    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].

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  28. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:06 am

    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. richard mcenroe
    April 24th, 2010 @ 1:06 am

    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. richard mcenroe
    April 23rd, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

    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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