Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/02/sec-workers-investigated-porn-surfing/
SEC Workers Investigated for Porn-Surfing

More than two dozen SEC employees and contractors over roughly the past two years have faced internal investigations after they were caught viewing pornography on their government computers.

Silly me, I thought the employees at the S.E.C. were supposed to be investigating Wall Street. I guess they were busy investigating. But it wasn't Wall Street. Shows you how much I know about how the government works.

The work computer of one regional supervisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed more than 1,800 attempts to look up pornography in a 17-day span: "It was kind of distraction per se," he later told investigators.

Kind of a distraction? Sounds more like a full time job to me.

Now I understand why nobody at the S.E.C. noticed the ponzi scheme Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff had been running for decades. Even after multiple investigations, the S.E.C. was never able to find anything wrong with the way Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff was doing business. If it wasn't for Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff's sons who turned him in, he would likely still be running his ponzi scheme. And the cracked S.E.C. investigative team would still be investigating Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff and still not finding anything wrong with his business.

It is not a lack of regulation that caused the S.E.C. to fail. It is a lack of staff. All the staff at the S.E.C. who were supposed to be watching Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff, were watching internet porn instead. If this is the best that the government can do, then why bother having the S.E.C. at all.

This brings new meaning to the phrase "hard at work".