The Truth Behind the Wall Street Meltdown
 

Now we know: It's because SEC staffers were surfing porn.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fed...ederal_wo.html

Thank god the GOP is on top of this.

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you can't do that shit on Gov computers. now, I agree with Sebby that having the uppermost level of management in most gov agencies surf porn and jack off all day is an improvement over letting them make day to day decisions- Say if Brownie had handed Katrina recoverey over to real Nat'l guard officlas and said "take care of it, I just logged onto Savannah.com", we'd have had a better result-

BUT- they can't- I am friends with the guy clinton choose to run the Patent office for his first 4 or 5 years. I visited him in his office and offered to show him this new virtual boquet flower delivery site I found, he goes "no way, not on this computer. it has to be squeaky clean because when we need to repremand an employee for wasting time on his computer, we can't have a bunch of BS pop up in my history."

The R's may be exploiting it but a top guy looking at porn for 8 hours a day is an actual problem Sidd.

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"Three of the incidents occurred this year, ten in 2009, 16 in 2008, two in 2007 and one each in 2006 and 2005."

13 potentially under Obama and 20 under Bush. With no indication (in the linked article) when the Senior Attorney spent all that time.

That's why exploiting it is ridiculous.

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Thanks. You have my proxy on dealing with Hank. Of course it's a problem when a gov't employee is surfing porn instead of working. But it's not the secret reason behind the financial meltdown.

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i thought the meltdown started under Bush? why doesn't the point hold true no matter who lived at 1600?

plus i wanted to post that i was personally acquainted with a former ass't undersecretary of commerce.

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last warning.

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I must have missed the congressional repubs even implying they recognize this reality. Which is why it's ridiculous for the congressional repubs to exploit it.

The talking head idiots, on the other hand, can do whatever they want.

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Or what?

You say stuff like this:

Obviously I was not suggesting that it was not "an actual problem." I was criticizing the Rs for exploiting it -- for suggesting that this was the reason behind the financial meltdown, or a reason not to increase financial regulation.

Why do you make such patently stupid comments, and then act like such a little bitch when anyone criticizes you for it? Did you think that your "an actual problem, Sidd" was anything other than obnoxious, childish, snarky bullshit? Did you think you were making an actual "point"?

Feel free to claim this one as a win, Hank. I'm beginning to think that old, tired, never-funny joke is actually your best contribution here.

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why? isn't the point that the SEC people are not trustworthy a valid one no matter who was in charge of the agency? not saying you need agree, or that i even understand what they do, but the argument is one I cognize.

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THEY MAKE THEIR OWN REALITY.

And, besides, let's face it, if you were a member of the Bush administration, especially as it puttered to an end, could you have found anything better to do than surf porn 8 hours a day?

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I'm not sure everyone who surfs for porn qualifies as not trustworthy. I'll give you stupid, and if it's 8 hours a day I'll give you kind of slimy, but I don't think it's terribly relevant to trust.

I'm just glad that the problem has come out now under the Obama Administration when the Bush Administration just swept it under the rug and never let it come to light. I think we need an investigation of Rove's role in all of this.

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Don't you understand -- if people working for the Bush Admin were doing this, it was Clinton's fault. Or Obama's, if they were doing it in 2008 -- because they were only doing it in anticipation of him being elected President, the same reason why the stock market collapsed.

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Isn't it a better point for implementing better/tougher standards for employee behavior rather than an point against financial regulation?

Or would the actions of our various congressional representatives (and Prez Clinton) be a point against our form of government? "Look at that president getting his dick sucked in the Oval Office, we must eliminate the presidency, or at least restrict its powers."

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It *was* Clinton's fault, for not providing the SEC with enough slutty interns. If he'd done the right thing, they could have just gotten a quickie instead of spending all day downloading porn.

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sounds like it was an investigation started near the end of Bush's term. of course the IG is usually not controlled by political appointees, for obvious reasons, so who was at 1600 meant little.

I would say someone so off the tracks that he looks at porn 8 hours, ( I mean really, is that serial beating off, or just delayed/) iis arguably not someone who should be trusted to make decisions to regulate banks.

but I know you guys are not capable of saying one word that could be perceived as against a dem, or apparently a Dem idea, so don't bother replying.