I have always heard that if you could get a government job your were set for life.  Work if you need to and when you wanted and you would always get a paycheck.  There was never a way you could get fired.  I even personnally knew a guy that would sit at his desk and read the newspaper all day at his job. No Joking here, a true story. Now his desk was very clean.  Here is an issue where government employees are making good use of your tax dollars.

Nine municipal employees being fired by District of Columbia officials for using their work computers to visit an "egregious" number of pornographic Web sites.

The Nine employees each clicked on at least 20,000 porn images last year, according to the D.C. government's top IT executive.

One individual clicked on 48,001 images, said Vivek Kundra, Washington's chief technology officer. The figures cited by Kundra in an interview today were based on an analysis of Web usage records captured by content-filtering tools that had been installed on some of the city's PCs.

"If you calculate roughly 200 working days in a year, and you divide that out, it means they were hitting these images at least 95 to 100 times per day," Kundra said. "It was extremely disappointing to see public servants spending a significant amount of their time on these pornographic sites, rather than on serving the people of the district."

He said that in addition to the nine employees who have been or will be terminated, 31 others have been either reprimanded or suspended for viewing porn at work. The disciplinary actions, which were announced on last week, followed a month long investigation of the computer usage habits of municipal employees by Kundra's office.

The investigation was triggered when an employee at the city's Office of Property Management complained about other workers using their government-issued systems to browse for and download pornographic content while at work. During the investigation, employees at 18 city agencies were found to be deserving of sanctions for misusing their systems, according to the announcement issued by the mayor's office. see more ComputerWorld.com

Think of this when you send your money to the IRS this year.

Cheers