Makes you Wonder?

[Guest 308Phantom]

Absolutely

> the funniest joke ever......ON

> US !!!

>

>

> Let

> it sink in.

> Quietly

> we go like sheep to slaughter.

>

>

>

>

>

> 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 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 old

> bureaucracy...

>

>

>

> And

> NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, health care &

> the Auto Industry over to

> government?

>

> God

> Help

> US!

[USMCJG]

> And

> NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, health care &

> the Auto Industry over to

> government?

>

> God

> Help

> US!

Yep. Pretty scary ain't it?