FUNNIEST JOKE EVER

Absolutely the Funniest Joke Ever! ON US

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. Excuse me... I'm old... it was the high gas prices.
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 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?'

Ah yes, good ole bureaucracy. And now we are going to turn the Banking system over to them?

iT'S 45 degrees and I'm gonna go for a nice long walk and guess what -- no boots or crampons (yaktracks) nope, just good ole tennis shoes. Why? Well, it rained all night and I can see green grass and bare sidewalks --more later---oh ya, two birds showed up to feast late yesterday afternoon. Hubby claimed they were more interested in the tree branch than the food, as water was dripping off it and hola, drink fountain readily available. Who'd of thunk!