Why was the Dept. of Energy created?

[USA4ME]

Rec'd via e-mail:

Read this slowly. Let it sink in. Quietly we go. Sheep to slaughter.


Absolutely The Funniest Joke Ever!  . . . ON US


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?

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[Jim]

and I'm sure they're doing a fine freakin job of aligning staples and making reports.

and education has gone right down the shitter since the dept of education was formed.

housing and urban development ceased when HUD was formed.

about the only thing getting better is the DOD.  thank God for that.

[Jim]

Not to dissuade anyone from mocking a bureaucracy gone mad, AND a rather humorous email spam!  Wasn't there just a bit of an energy crisis of sorts, during the Carter administration 

why yes, yes there was !

[rich_t]

Not to dissuade anyone from mocking a bureaucracy gone mad, AND a rather humorous email spam!  Wasn't there just a bit of an energy crisis of sorts, during the Carter administration 

Actually it was an oil crisis.


So the story goes.