An observation
This came in from an email -- edited slightly:
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?
Bueller?
Bottom line -- we have 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 is 2009, 32 years later and the budget for this necessary department is $24.2 BILLION EACH YEAR.
It has 16,000 Federal Employees and approximately 100,000 Contract Employees and look at the excellent job it has done.
And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to them?
Posted by DaveH at July 25, 2009 11:40 AM