Absolutely the funniest joke ever.....

Absolutely the funniest joke ever..... ON US !!!
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>Let it sink in.Quietly we go like sheep to slaughter.
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Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... during the Carter Administration?
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Anybody?
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Anything?
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No?
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.....Didn't think so!
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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.
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>Ready???????
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It was very simple .. and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate...
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The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977 -----TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCEON FOREIGN OIL.
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Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
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AND NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER ... AND THE BUDGET FOR THISNECESSARY DEPARTMENTIS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
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THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY"WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
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Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy...And NOW - we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to government?
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May God Help Us !!!