In the October 9th, 2014 issue of Bloomberg Business Week Claire Saddath reveals the rampant abuse of taxpayer’s dollars by federal government employees. In a 2010 Neilson survey of federal employees 29% were found to have watched pornography on their computer. The average time spent watching pornography was 13 minutes.
In August of 2012 there were 2,721,000 US employees. Assuming the 2010 Nielson survey is still accurate that means almost 789,100 US government employees are watching Pornography and we are paying for it. The cost, assuming that the rates are approximately $10 per view then we are looking at $7,891,000 of US taxpayers funds. We also know that the average cost of a federal employee, wage plus benefits is about $60,000 per year. That means the taxpayers paid $3,945,000 for federal workers to watch 10 minutes of pornography a year. So the total cost was almost $12 million.
For an example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a written policy that forbids EPA employees for downloading “sexually explicit material”. In a recent case a senior EPA official was storing pornography on the government servers. The $120,000 per year employee was spending two to six hours a day watching porn and he had 7,000 files on his computer one of his favorite being “Sadism is Beautiful”. The EPA has yet to determine whether this fellow’s conduct which everyone in the case agrees was a transgression of the “forbidden to download “sexually explicit material” rule reaches the level of dismissal.
Just to make certain that you understand, I am not picking on the EPA, in the same 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) discovered that 33 employees were found to have repeatedly (whatever that means) viewed pornography rather than working on their caseload. One SEC senior attorney was so bad that he ran out of space on his hard drive so he began burning pornography onto DVDs that he kept in his office.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is unable to help since many of their own employees are spending their time watching pornography rather than working too. In 2014, one employee at the FCC, alone was found having watched 13,000 pornographic images in a six week period and another employee admitted to spending up to 8 hours a day watching pornography because of boredom. Neither of them were fired, of course, because they are federal employees.
Not to be outdone, another article discussed how Treasury agents also watched an incredible amount of pornography. Even the Government Services Administration (GSA) found someone who during a 2014 investigation blamed his pornography habit on boredom at work. In a Commerce Department Inspector General report noted that $5 million was wasted by employees who spent 90% of their time watched pornography, shopped online and other non-productive pursuits. Even worse many of these same employees received $3,500 bonuses during the years they spent 90% of their time being unproductive.
Now, the more amazing fact to me, was that none of the government agencies had a zero tolerance for employees spending taxpayer dollars for pornography much less personal use. Finally I understand the reason for the government being unaware that Financial Institutions were selling junk bonds as triple A bonds (later found to be guilty of fraud), the SEC was unaware Bernie Madoff was conducting the largest Ponzi scheme to hit America blocks from the SEC headquarters for years, and Congress unable to come to consensus with the President to fix what ails America during the worst financial crisis in 80 year! All of these agencies were too distracted by their employees watching pornography rather than performing the duties we, the taxpayers, pay them for. And don’t look at the agencies either as these are the same people who cannot even prevent their own workers from watching pornography on government computers. We should be happy that anything functions in America with the government spending so much of its time in a porn crazed stupor!
Sources:
Watching Porn at the Office Extremely Common
Federal Employees Caught Watching Porn Claim Boredom Made Them Do It
Bloated Government Federal Employment at 47 Year Low
15 Things You Need to Know About Internet Porn
Federal Employees Caught and Admit to Watching Porn at Work
Exactly How Much Porn are Federal Employees Watching at Work
