POLITICS -- GOTTA LOVE IT

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 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?




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 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 beauocracy. And now we are going to turn

the Banking system over to them? God Help us.