Posted by
Takeadair on Sunday, July 05, 2009 4:10:29 PM
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration?
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 $24.2 + 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?