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Friday, April 23, 2010

Senior SEC Officers Spent Lots of Time on Porn Sites at Work

Several senior SEC officials were too busy surfing porn sites at work that enforcing our nation's securities laws, a new report found.

Some people will be troubled by this - and indeed - in the real world, those employees would be fired. But alas this is the government where I don't think it's that uncommon. Further, I think we should take it easy on these folks because the more they are preoccupied with other interests, the less damage they can do to the U.S. economy. So lets not be too harsh.

As Reagan said, government is not the solution to the problems, it is the problem.