Posted on 02/24/2015 11:51:04 AM PST by jazusamo
An epidemic of federal employees watching pornography on government computers during work hours has gotten so out of control that legislation has been introduced in Congress to contain the embarrassing crisis.
Porn has for years been part of the job at some government agencies and in fact a number of federal audits have long documented the enraging details of how our tax dollars are being wasted. Judicial Watch has also reported on this for years, especially the porn crisis at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency charged with policing the nation’s financial industry. While the economy crumbled, the SEC was preoccupied with pornography. In fact, high-ranking managers at the agency regularly spent work hours gawking at pornography web sites on their government computers while the country’s financial system collapsed.
We’re talking dozens of SEC employees, including senior officers with lucrative six-figure salaries viewing explicit images on their agency computers during work hours. One senior attorney at the SEC headquarters in Washington D.C. spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn. When his government computer ran out of file space, he downloaded pornographic images on compact discs and stored them in boxes in his office. One agency accountant tried to access porn websites 16,000 times in one month and got busted with hundreds of pornographic images on her computer hard drive. Another SEC accountant used his government computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto various porn websites that he frequented during business hours.
Other agencies have also been embroiled in porn scandals evidently making legislation necessary. Among them is the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been exposed by its inspector general for having employees spend significant portions of their workdays watching, downloading and e-mailing pornography on government computers without ever getting caught. This workday porn surfing costs American taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, according to the agency watchdog, yet the NSF keeps receiving monstrous allocations from Congress every year. I 2014 the scandal-plagued agency tried to persuade Congress to approve an $83 million increase to its already excessive $7.2 billion annual budget.
This disgraceful government pornography epidemic might once and for all come under control thanks to a law ( Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act) introduced recently by a North Carolina Congressman, Mark Meadows. The measure would stop federal employees from accessing, watching or sharing pornography on government-issued computers and devices. How pathetic that this problem has been so pervasive in our taxpayer-funded agencies that a law must be passed to stop it. Why can’t these agencies police themselves and put an end to this shameful issue?
Congressman Meadows says in a statement that the inspiration for the bill came from yet another agency embroiled in a porn scandal, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Recent EPA Inspector General reports have uncovered multiple cases of employees working hard at watching porn. “One EPA employee was viewing as much as 6 hours of pornography a day in his office,” Meadows said. “The same federal employee was found to have downloaded as many as 7,000 pornographic files onto his government computer.” Another inspector general report, provided by the congressman on his website, details an employee who pleaded guilty to using his EPA email account to access an internet site with child pornography.
The congressman, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, says most agencies have rules banning porn yet it continues to take place. “There is absolutely no excuse for federal employees to be viewing and downloading pornographic materials on the taxpayers’ dime,” he said, adding that “it’s appalling that it requires an act of Congress to ensure that federal agencies block access to these sites.” Seldom mentioned is the cybersecurity threat created by accessing porn websites because the files are often ridden with viruses and malware, the congressman further points out.
Doing their actual jobs is above their paygrade.
Taxpayer sponsored porn...thanks, Bill Clinton, for making that acceptable!
White collar unions. Good luck firing any of them. In reality, unions should be illegal in federal jobs, because the unions stated enemy is not a company, but the American taxpayer!
Bunch of jerkoffs....
The majority of them have no work to do anyway.
How do you think porn became a problem ?
Hey,maybe I'm more old fashioned than I thought.
“unions should be illegal in federal jobs”
Exactly, that bill should be introduced along with this one.
Government IS porn.
Imagine what the unemployment numbers would look like if these overpaid, underworked, faceless bureaucrat, union thug morons had to look for real work.
most government employees don’t do much at all.
ObamaCare employees were paid to process 2 applications a month. A MONTH!
Good post. Nancy Pelosi told us several years ago that there was no funding that could be cut from the budget and that all of the funding was so critical to the nation. Senator Pelosi is brain dead!
Get rid of their computers, and go back to calculators, paper, and pencils (not pens, because of the carbon credits).
If employees of fed agencies have time during working hours to do s*** like that, they obviously do not have enough work to justify the salary WE pay them-they need to be let go and that position should be eliminated-that is what happens in private sector companies.
I cannot imagine that anyone in the Government would have to learn about the birds and bees. Most high level Government officials have been giving us the shaft for at least 50 years. If the Government employees lose their federal government jobs then they may have to compete with illegal aliens for the jobs that are available but look at the positive side these poor naïve people may learn the facts of life.
Any halfway competent IT tech could block all porn sites from office computers if that is the rule.
“We don’t have a spending problem, we have a paying for it problem” -Steny Hoyer
“We have been willing to do what is fair in ratcheting down very, very hard on programs dealing with domestic discretionary spending,we can’t go any more.” -Harry Reid
“Republicans want your children to get e. coli. by cutting spending” Nasty Pelosi
There is not ONE SINGLE spending cut we can make according to liberal democrats. WHY DOES EVERY DAMNED BUREAUCRAT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS!?!?!?!? How many billions are spent on internet access? How many billions are wasted with government idiots wasting time surfing the web and porn. Cut off the internet, fire 90% of them and watch government effeciency improve.
We could have some real fun with this....I recommend congressional hearings, and all those workers caught viewing porn would have to testify publicly...and have to defend site by site what pornography they viewed...and have to answer under oath if they were masturbating at the time....
If you can’t fire them, why not publicly humiliate the hell out of them...
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