Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever ! . . . 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 reason for
which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready? It was very simple, and at the time e v e r y o n e thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy (located appropriately at 1000 Independance Ave
was instituted 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. HEY, PRETTY EFFICIENT, HUH?
AND NOW IT'S 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 EMPLOYEE S.
