Getting paid by taxpayers to watch porn
Enough is enough. More than just a slap on the wrist is needed for these employees—and the supervisors who manage them
By Penny Nance at Daily Caller
While the United Stated was spiraling into a recession, high-ranking government employees were really enjoying their work—they got to watch pornography all day on their work computers at the expense of American taxpayers. Now all of those other scandals regarding lack of oversight and enforcement at the SEC make a lot more sense. The SEC’s Office of the Inspector General’s summary outlining 33 investigations regarding the widespread use of pornography on SEC computers has become public and is quite, ahem, revealing.
The report uncovered that for the past two years, high-ranking government employees making between $99,000 and $220,000 have been looking at a lot of pornography on their work computer. In fact, one senior attorney spent eight hours per day exercising his “First Amendment right” to free porn and there were plenty of other similar stories.
As the CEO of the nations’ largest public policy organization for women, I am outraged that my tax dollars paid for the salaries for these men (and women) while they wasted time instead of doing their jobs. This brings to light an insidious use of government waste and fraud by a federal regulatory body while the nation teetered on the edge of economic collapse.
Why aren’t these folks immediately fired upon exposure? According to a source at the SEC it’s not as simple as it seems. In order to fire or even suspend employees caught purposely viewing porn the agency must fight with their union. Apparently, even wasting tax dollars viewing porn isn’t reason enough for the NTEU to support a bad employee getting the sack. Perhaps partially for the aforementioned reason, the typical response of big government agencies is people never get fired, just reassigned to another cubicle.
Typical of big government agencies, people never get fired, just reassigned to another cubicle. The fact that they were not for the most part, properly disciplined, only leads me to conclude that the SEC is being severely mismanaged. How many other government agencies have similar problems? At least one that we know of. Last year, it was uncovered that employees at the National Science Foundation also spent hours and hours looking at porn on the job. Again, no one was fired.
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