Posted on 03/10/2010 3:17:06 PM PST by Zakeet
We noticed with amused curiosity, reports of an email circulating the digital halls of Congress warning staffers not to visit the Drudge Report for fear of viruses.
Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge ReportThe Senate’s official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com “are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate,” according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Drudge responded that his millions of other satisfied customers have had no complaints. He also revealed the following statistics:
“The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]” the Drudge Report wrote.
We made some very rough calculations and arrived at the following analysis:
149,967 Hits to Drudge from senate.gov since March 1 = 16,663 hits per day
244,347 Hits to Drudge from house.gov = 27,150 hits per day
If one spends just 30 seconds scanning headlines, that’s 139 hours per day of scanning headlines in the Senate. That requires 17 Senate staffers putting in a full 8 hour day.
In the House that’s 226 hours spent scanning Drudge, requiring 28 Staffers working 8 hour days.
What’s the total cost of government labor expended reading The Drudge Report in Congress? It depends on who’s scanning the headlines.
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On the other hand, think how much taxpayers save when the Rat b*st*rds aren't working on more tax and spend schemes
Ha! I find this humorous!
Of course, employees doing this at work doesn’t cost private employers anything.
Especially when you work on commission.
Drudge is a god place to do a quick scan for interesting headlines. So is Freerepublic... :)
Well, that is a lot of money, however, in comparison it is nothing compared to the pre-letter the government is sending out to let us know the Census is coming, can someone say $85 million dollars?
Drudge should be flattered that the obamanites consider him worthy of intelligence gathering.
I’m thinking the cyber bugs are from the
hits on NAMBLA.com by Kevin Jennings.
And his staff.
exactly, every minute the legislators and bureaucrats spend surfing the web is probably a net gain for the economy.
And that’s just estimated time spent on Drudge. One wonders about time spent at other sites.
$79,433 is a drop in the bucket compared to the government’s cost for employees surfing porn sites.
Curiously, our stock broker told us yesterday that he is no longer allowed to FReep while at work.
I got our pre-letter in the mail yesterday and had that thought. What a ridiculous waste of money!
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