Dept of energy

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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 reason for which (probably) 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 8-04-1977-
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL
.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh?

Now its 2008, 31 years later, and the budget for this necessary
department is at $24.2 Billion a year, they have 16,000 federal
employees, and approximately 100,000 contract employees and look at
the job they have 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 over to them?

[Dolphin]

TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL ?????? Lets see, an increase since then of about 1000 percent


But Look at all the Government Jobs that were created