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$$$ “GUBMINT AND HOW GUBMINT WORKS” $$$

Greetings Everyone,

“Gubmint”??? And “Gobmint Works”??? I could not find them there words in my dictionary??? I posted the story anyway, because definition or not it made sense a whole lot of cents, ops, sorry I meant sense to me.

George W. (gfwjr)

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Subject: Fwd: Fw: Gubmint and How Gubmint Works

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*Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the
middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at
night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a
person for the job.
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Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without
instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two
people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do
time studies.
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Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing
the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department
and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the
reports.
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Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid???" So
they created two positions: a timekeeper and a payroll officer, then hired two people.
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Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these
three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
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Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one
Year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cutback."

> > > So They Laid Off The Night Watchman. /span> /span> /span>

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NOW slowly, let it sink in.
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Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
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??? Does anybody remember 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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NOPE?
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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,
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* “TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON

FOREIGN OIL.” *

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Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
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AND NOW IT'S 2010 -- 33 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET $$$ FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION $$$ A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
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* 33 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports.*
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* Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.*
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Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
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NOW WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?