The Washington Times reported yesterday that Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn [2] instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants.
That’s not an isolated problem …
We noted [3] last year:
Investigators from the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General found that some of the regulator’s employees surfed erotic websites, hired prostitutes and accepted gifts from bank executives [4] … instead of actually working to help the economy.
Likewise, senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes [5].
The Minerals Management Service – the regulator charged with overseeing BP and other oil companies to ensure that oil spills don’t occur – was riddled with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity”, which included “sex with industry contacts” [6].
The biggest companies own [7] the D.C. politicians. Indeed, the head of the economics department at George Mason University [8] has pointed out that it is unfair to call politicians “prostitutes”. They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price [8].