The Hard Working House of Representatives

Well, it's nice to know that someone working in the House of Representatives is vandalizing Wikipedia. Since this is the second time this month it has happened all IPs from the House are banned from making any edits for 10 days.

Of course, the members of the House are complaining that they are all being banned for the actions of one or a few - however, it stands to reason that anyone in the House could potentially access other computers, so I think Wikipedia is wise.

One staffer complained, ""Some of us here are just making grammatical edits, adding information about birds in Omsk, or showing how one can patch KDE2 under FreeBSD."

Now, at this point I have to applaud the hardworking government. Our economy stinks - literally people are not getting pay increases to keep up with inflation and the FED is okay with that; Mexico's drug war is seeping across the boarder into Texas and basically being ignored; we are flinging mud at Russia as if we are daring them and China to go to war against us; and the rest of the world that the U.S. has touched in the past thirty years has devolved into anarchist rebellions: Libya, Kuwait, Egypt, Iraq (or what is left of it and Syria after an Islamic group violently seized some and proclaimed a caliphate), Afghanistan, etc.

Still, people we are paying up to $174,000 each year to run our country and who generally do get pay increases that are equal to or greater than inflation, manage to have time not to actually resolve these awful issues, but to make edits to Wikipedia pages during work hours. Sorry, I do not think the people of the United States voted for Congress (who in turn chooses and is responsible for their staff) so that they could make Wikipedia edits about birds in Omsk.

I think we need "Big Brother: Capitol Hill" If there would be cameras in every office, if every computer screen could be visible at all times, how much more work could be done? I would love to know how many government employees are playing Minecraft during the day - their jobs are obviously not necessary and could be cut - which would save us money. Imaging if we could actually watch our senators as they are handed fat paychecks by lobbyists to vote for special interests and big businesses instead of constituents. I think the ratings would go through the roof. The show's ratings, that is, not the ratings of the government.

Or perhaps, the government would clean itself up and get to work. Goodness knows, once cops start wearing cameras, the complaints against them dropped and they began using force less frequently.