Anybody? Anything? Anyone?
The bottom line is, that we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 08/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
AND NOW IT'S 2023 -- 46 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $242 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 WERE THEY THINKING?") 34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was imports. Today 43% of our oil consumption is imports.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, AND HEALTH CARE TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT. What can possibly go wrong?
Signed... The Night Watchman
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