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> Absolutely the funniest joke ever... BUT IT'S ON US !!!
>
>
>
> a.. Let it sink in.
> b..
> c.. Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
> Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ...... during the Carter Administration?
>
> a.. Anybody?
> b.. Anything?
> c.. No?
> d.. Didn't think so!
> Bottom line .. we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
>
> Ready???????
>
> It was very simple...
>
> and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate...
>
>
>
>
> The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on
>
> 8-04-1977
> TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
>
>
>
> Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
>
> AND NOW IT'S 2009,
>
> 32 YEARS LATER ...
>
> AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
>
> NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24,200,000,000 A YEAR!
>
> IT HAS
>
> a.. 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
> b.. AND APPROXIMATELY
> c.. 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
> a..
> b.. AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
>
> THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY,
> c.. 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
> Ah, yes, good ole bureaucracy..
>
>
>
> And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to them?
>
>
>
> God Help Us !!!
>
>
>
>
>
> a.. Let it sink in.
> b..
> c.. Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
> Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ...... during the Carter Administration?
>
> a.. Anybody?
> b.. Anything?
> c.. No?
> d.. Didn't think so!
> Bottom line .. we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
>
> Ready???????
>
> It was very simple...
>
> and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate...
>
>
>
>
> The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on
>
> 8-04-1977
> TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
>
>
>
> Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
>
> AND NOW IT'S 2009,
>
> 32 YEARS LATER ...
>
> AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
>
> NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24,200,000,000 A YEAR!
>
> IT HAS
>
> a.. 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
> b.. AND APPROXIMATELY
> c.. 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
> a..
> b.. AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
>
> THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY,
> c.. 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
> Ah, yes, good ole bureaucracy..
>
>
>
> And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to them?
>
>
>
> God Help Us !!!
>
>