Question: Does anybody remember WHY the Department of Energy was established by the Carter Administration?
Anybody? Anything? No? Didn't think so.
We've spent several hundred billion dollars to run an agency whose purpose not one person can remember.
OK, I'll tell you.
It was simple and, at the time, everybody thought it was appropriate. The Department of Energy (located coincidentally at 1000 Independence Ave )
was instituted 8-4-1977 in order to -- get this -- LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Now it's 2008 -- 31 YEARS LATER -- and the budget for this department has reached $24.2 BILLION A YEAR.
It has around 16,000 federal employees and 100,000 contract employees.
Next question: Can anyone tell us ONE useful thing that this department has done?
Anybody? One thing? No?
Final question: What were we thinking ? ?
Bottom line: Think BEFORE you vote!
