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1 posted on 04/08/2009 4:05:08 AM PDT by Scanian

There may be hope for Webb (D-VA) yet.

2 posted on 04/08/2009 4:13:37 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)

To: Scanian; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; Fiddlstix; ...

4 posted on 04/08/2009 4:49:19 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (What new from the Thief-in-Chief?)

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 2009, 32 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!

5 posted on 04/08/2009 4:57:07 AM PDT by 2111USMC

It may have been beaten this time, but you can bet it will be back.

6 posted on 04/08/2009 5:14:21 AM PDT by Venturer

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