More Government is Good!

From Willie in the Wind ...

Does anybody out there remember 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? The reason it was formed, and necessary was very simple and, at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate:
The Department of Energy was instituted August 4, 1977 to lessen our dependence on FOREIGN oil. Hey - pretty good idea, don't you think?
And now it's 2009, 32 years later, and the budget for this NECESSARY Department is $24.2 billion dollars a year. They have 16,000 federal employees and approx-imately 100,000 contract employees. And look at the job these bureaucrats have done. We're even more dependent on foreign oil now than we were more than thirty years ago. Now that's government efficiency.
Okay, you can now slap your forehead and say, "What was everyone thinking?"
Ah yes, good ol'government bureaucracy. And now we are going to turn the Banking system over to them? And the auto industry? And ...
God help us!