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Old 04-23-2010, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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It's good to know we'll be getting more pervs downloading porn. Er, I mean staff regulating financial institutions.

New regulation as I understand it from this stupid bill: 120 waiting time for an "angel investor" to finance your startup. Like I said, these bills help the big corporations and there's no contradiction in them wanting it to move forward.
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Old 04-23-2010, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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Can't blame them. Watching porn is probably a lot more interesting than doing their jobs.

Maybe but for 8 hours a day?! And this is the crew they want to give expanded powers to?!
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:18 PM
 
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Alternate title for this thread:

"SEC diddles while Rome burns"

Top that, New York Post.
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:18 PM
 
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SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100423/ap_on_bi_ge/us_sec_porn - broken link)
1. I hate porn. I wish I could get by abolishing it but I'd be overstepping boundaries of the law.

2. Employees abusing employer resources (weighted in terms of loss) are first warned, sanction imposed, then the progressive discipline for repeated offense is termination.

3. I hate that these high priced losers act this way. What happens to the 25 million a year loser doing the same thing, plus 5 martini lunch? It's his decision to monitor monitors, and is exempt from drug testing all other employees (despite the fact that he too is an employee) are subjected.

4. Personal opinion of SEC; I consider huge derelictions of duty were occurring over considerable time periods. I can partially attribute this to leadership influenced by political pressure, but the rest is not explained to my satisfaction, nor has any media source ever reported on that subject with depth.

5. Thread title abused this lynch pin fact of the story...
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The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.
In other words, the majority of offenses happened after the horse was out of the barn. They were chaste and waited until after the meltdown to yank. Wait and see which one of them claim a stress disorder, porn for medicinal purposes.

Republicans still redirecting attention away actual criminals? I guess they still haven't learned.
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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1. I hate porn. I wish I could get by abolishing it but I'd be overstepping boundaries of the law.

2. Employees abusing employer resources (weighted in terms of loss) are first warned, sanction imposed, then the progressive discipline for repeated offense is termination.

3. I hate that these high priced losers act this way. What happens to the 25 million a year loser doing the same thing, plus 5 martini lunch? It's his decision to monitor monitors, and is exempt from drug testing all other employees (despite the fact that he too is an employee) are subjected.

4. Personal opinion of SEC; I consider huge derelictions of duty were occurring over considerable time periods. I can partially attribute this to leadership influenced by political pressure, but the rest is not explained to my satisfaction, nor has any media source ever reported on that subject with depth.

5. Thread title abused this lynch pin fact of the story...


In other words, the majority of offenses happened after the horse was out of the barn. They were chaste and waited until after the meltdown to yank. Wait and see which one of them claim a stress disorder, porn for medicinal purposes.

Republicans still redirecting attention away actual criminals? I guess they still haven't learned.
I asked another poster to describe the crime and I got crickets. Perhaps you would like to take a whack at it (pun intended).
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:22 PM
 
Location: EPWV
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When do they have time for lunch ?
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:29 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Gotta love how the media focuses on porn instead of deregulation that lead to this mess.

::sigh::
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Hoboken
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Gotta love how the media focuses on porn instead of deregulation that lead to this mess.

::sigh::

Would you care to take a whack at exactly what deregulation lead to this?
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:36 PM
 
Location: Prepperland
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The joys of voluntary socialism !
Government "workers" pretend to work at our expense. But it's okay - we volunteered.

Didn't they TELL you?

There's no law that compels all Americans to enroll into Socialist InSecurity, and become a "human resource". There is no law that would impose involuntary servitude - taking your life's work - for the benefit of another - without your consent.

So stop grousing about the SEC and other scoundrels. Until you withdraw consent, you cannot complain.

(Do not believe me. Please write a polite letter to your "representative" and ask for a copy any law that compels ALL AMERICANS to enroll and participate in Social Security / Federal Insurance Contribution Act of 1935. Ask for a copy of any law that punishes ANY AMERICAN who does not enroll nor participate in the entitlement program. Then ask for the official procedure to volunteer out, since YOU were misled by fraud and constructive fraud to enroll in the first place. Do not be surprised by their lack of response. It's been the #1 scam of Congress since 1935.)
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Old 04-23-2010, 09:39 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Wow. A search of the entire SEC staff's web history found just 33 people who had once upon a time looked at porn. Given that there are literally tens of thousands of SEC employees why should anyone care? Seriously 33 out of say 80,000 is an extremely tiny number. Talk about trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
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