Saturday, April 11, 2009

The joke's on us

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration?

Anybody?

Anything?
No?

Didn't think so!

Bottom line .. we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ... the reasonfor 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 $24.2 + BILLION A YEAR

IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY '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?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could our dependence on foreign oil have anything to do with oil friendly Bush Sr, GW and the good old boys??? Think about it!! Carter had solar panels on the White House and Reagan and company tore em down. SMART

R U Bourd said...

Yeah, it's all W's fault. Everything bad is his fault. We all know that.