What does the SEC have in common with the NSF?

Last year the National Science Foundation (NSF), which requested $3 billion in ‘Stimulus’ money, was exposed (pun intended) when it was discovered that a number of their overpaid employees spent a good deal of time surfing pornography on government computers. You can refresh your memory about this by reading my post NSF Requests $3 Billion In Stimulus MoneyFor More Employee Stimulation.

Your tax money at work. Terrible, right? But an isolated case, no doubt, right?

Wrong.

At least Nero fiddled with an actual fiddle while Rome burned. The SEC was busy dick-fiddling while the entire economy crashed.

I guess we now know why the SEC continually ignored a whistleblower and couldn’t be bothered with upstanding citizens like Bernie Madoff, or why it has taken them so long to notice that Goldman Sachs is a den of thieves. They were busy.Very Busy.

During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time,” said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general’s office.More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years

Was it good for you, you bastards? Apparently, it was good for these two slackers.

A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic Web sites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on the hard drive of her laptop.

Well aren’t YOU a busy lady!  One wonders how you found the time! May I say that it is good to know that the SEC is an Equal Opportunity Porn Employer.  I am so happy to know that you are an accountant who is looking out for us!

Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation.

“In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office,” the inspector general’s report said.

You’re not too bright, are you? Why, I’m surprised you didn’t requisition your own server!

Hey, this could be why the SEC didn’t notice what was going on while the entire economy crashed! They did it till they went blind!

Well, at least the SEC is consistent with our government. They are scum.

Maybe if  that whistleblower had sent them naked pictures as cover sheets on  Bernie Madoff data, and maybe if someone had sent them some videos of those Goldman thieves in compromising situations, we might have gotten a faster response while Wall Street crumbled around these pigs.

Somebody needs to explain to these idiots that this is not what we meant when we told them they were supposed to “Oversee” things.

…….And I think their names should be made public. Immediately.

Ironically, Republicans are actually jumping on this issue for some leverage, as if they haven’t had their own share of  perverts emerging at high levels, make that the Capitol, in recent years.

Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said it was “disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation’s economy on the brink of collapse.”

Ah Darrell, if only you were as good at complaining loudly about your own.

In any event, I know you are all extremely pleased to know that the SEC employees are earning their paychecks the Hard Way. And whatever you do, don’t be buying any government surplus computers.

Okay, I’ve had fun blaming some dime-a-dozen accountant and some lawyer who doesn’t have to cut it in his own practice because he’s busy jerking off, figuratively and literally, and found his perfect venue at the SEC.

But there’s only one problem here.

Although this latest porn revelation is just one more confirmation of how a boatload of SEC employees are not only underworked, but they are a waste of time, money and bloated benefits, the real Power-Honchos at the SEC (read political appointees), the ones who just recently voted to file fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, aren’t the ones accused of spending their days with porn. They were warned about Bernie Madoff by a whistleblower who did everything short of dancing naked in front of them — and did nothing. They took their precious time filing charges against Goldman Sucks while Goldman continued to plunder and destroy our economy.

Funny, but I am not reading that the reason they dragged their butts was they were too busy with porn. What I am reading  instead is this Goldman Sachs thing is suspiciously corresponding very nicely to Barack Obama’s “Finance Reform” plans. In short, it looks more like they were busy deliberately not doing their jobs until they were told to do their jobs. But that can’t be so. After all, Barack swears he didn’t even know about the SEC filing till he saw it on the news. And I can grow orchids in my New York yard in December.