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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Funniest Joke EVER! And it's on
US! <br>
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Read this slowly to let it sink in. <br>
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Does anybody out there have any memory of the reasons given for the
establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration? <br>
Anybody? <br>
Anything? <br>
No? <br>
Didn't think so. <br>
<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Ready? It was very simple, and at the time everybody thought it very
appropriate. <br>
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The main reason the Department of Energy was instituted 8-04-1977 was TO LESSEN
OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>So, how is that workin’ for
ya’? Huh?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>Hey,
pretty efficient, right? <br>
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And now it is 2008. It is 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! <br>
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This is where you can slap your forehead and say 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?' <br>
<br>
Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy. And now we are going to turn the Banking system
over to them? And then healthcare? And then our 401(k)’s?<br>
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God Help us. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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