US DOH

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? I 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? GOOD JOB YOU GUYS! **

AND NOW ITS 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?'* SOMEONE NEEDS GO GIVE THEM THEIR SIGN*

Then rename the DOE to the Department of HUH?? I think the US DUH is more accurate.

Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy. And now we are going to turn the Banking system over to them? And the automobile industry?* *God Help us.*

From and unattributed email received from a friend.