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Subject: Fw: Responsibility of the DOE!!! (I
think it should be DUH!!!)
From a Friend regarding responsibilities and the Department of
Energy...
> This just blows my mind...
>
> 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 bureaucracy. And now we are going to turn
the Banking
> system over to them? May Heaven help us.
>
>
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