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Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn
unixan writes "In a report by the SEC Inspector General that smacks of fiddling while Rome burns, 33 recent ethics investigations all showed that the government employees responsible for keeping an eye on the economy were instead obsessed with surfing porn — while the economy was tipping over. One cited example: '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.'"
To all the people who hope that some new legislation with "better regulation" will prevent system failure in the future:
1) Read your history. This is not the first time this exact same drama has played out. Ever hear of Bretton Woods?
2) Look around you. Pick any company that fucked up bad. Would a big re-org have fixed the root of the problem?
Why people continue to believe they need government to save them is beyond me.
Part of the Second American Revolution!
Don't these guys know the whole point of working for the GOV is to be LAZY & CORRUPT.
Instead of using porn for personal use they should have been Moonlighting by using the gov internet to host and distribute their own porn creations.
That way they could be paid for looking at porn, distributing porn, and be lazy at the same time.
This just goes to show how inefficient government workers can be at slacking off and being corrupt.
You're absolutely right. To be fair, I think it's more appropriate to say "the worst in recorded history" or "the worst since the invention of the printing press" or maybe "the worst since the Big Bang".
You are welcome on my lawn.
God, just imagine - every poor girl named Jenna Haze or Jenna Jameson or Chasey Lain will accidentally have her records deleted in the social security database, I bet! A whole generation of girls with porn star names... lost!
You think Bush was bad? Obama has followed on and expanded every single one of his policies, save for a few bits of windowdressing.
When are we pulling out of Iraq again? Why are we still torturing people at Bagram? Why is the Fed still giving free money to the banks? Why is spending still skyrocketing?
Dems and Repubs are the same. Until people can see that, and really understand it, nothing will change. If we're lucky, we'll have a Dem in the WH and Repubs in the Legislature and they will be locked up completely. Everything they do only makes everything worse, and that includes the SEC.
Bush was absolutely and without a doubt the worst president this country has ever had.
Yet...but President Obama is rapidly becoming the next Bush. For example, he has added more to the national debt in his first year in office than Bush did in eight AND he still has three more years to go! Surely I cannot be the only young person here with doubts about the "full faith and credit" of the US Government? Regardless of what Obama's intentions are, he is rapidly dismantling the productive parts of our economy (what is left of them anyway) and massively debasing the currency by piling on the debt. For those of you who say, "he is paying for the mistakes of Bush" I ask you this: At what point does Obama, the current President, become responsible? One cannot continue to blame one's predecessor forever. He wanted the job, now its time to make shit happen and so far I am not impressed with what I see. No doubt this entire response will be modded troll by the Obama faithful, but seriously what do you think your social security will be worth by the time you are 67 (or even older)? Personally, I expect to be wiping my ass with $100 bills when I retire; it will probably be cheaper than buying real toilet paper the way things are going.