Filed under: Bankruptcy, Change, Democrats, Ecology, Global Warming, Government, Jimmy Carter, Legacy, News, Nostalgia, Politics, Pollution, Republicans, Taxes
I did not write this. I got it via email from a friend who also did not write it. However, we both think it’s worth the read and is very indicative about how our ‘gubmint’ works. Read on and feel free to copy it and send it to anyone you think might care or those who are too gullible to actually think this is the way it really is. Maybe they’ll finally ‘get it’.
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.
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.
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.
Then Congress said, “How are these people going to get paid?” So they created the following positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer, and then hired two people.
Then Congress said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?” So they created an administrative section and hired three people; an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, “We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget. We must cutback overall cost.” So they laid off the night watchman.
NOW slowly…let it sink in. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter Administration?
Anybody? Anything? No?
Bottom line. We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of this agency…the reason for which hardly any 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 on 8-04-1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. Hey, pretty 
efficient, huh???
And now it’s 2010 — 33 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 were they thinking?”)
Thirty-three years ago, 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports.
Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports — good ‘ole bureaucracy.
And now, we are going to turn the banking system, health care, and the auto industry over to the same government?
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Government, Healthcare, Jimmy Carter, Jobs, News, Over reaction, Poll - Take One, Racism, Taxes, Work
Ladies and gentlemen.
I have experienced a dearth of ideas, meaning I just haven’t had an idea for days. Until today when the world has seemingly gone mad all at once (again)! Now I have about a half dozen ideas.
So, starting at the top – pun intended.
The criticism of President Obama and Jimmy Carter’s assessment.
First of all, I don’t believe, as Jimmy Carter is saying, that people are necessarily criticizing President Obama as a person, as a partial African American, nor as a man. Nope, I’m pretty sure they are not.
Many, if they are criticizing him, are taking cracks at him because of his infinitely unwise decisions.
Remember back in the campaign days when Mr. Obama assured us – as have so many before him – that he would hold down the spending and especially the pork barrel spending? Yet in the middle of the campaign, both he and John McCain ran back to D.C. to vote for the first $700 billion bailout. This turned out to be an $850 billion bailout that included numerous pork barrel items and one of the first instances where words didn’t 
match actions for either Mr. Obama or Mr. McCain.
Our displeasure in these people had nothing to do with either man’s race. Their actions, however, should have caused a lightning bolt action running through our psyches telling us we shouldn’t vote for either man, black, white or otherwise.
Then there was the auto maker’s bail out. I was really against this one but Mr. Obama championed the cause and the senators and congressmen yet again, did not heed our tortured, crictical screams. Next thing you know the American taxpayers became the not-so-proud owners of the Government Motors Company. Our displeasure had nothing to do with Mr. Obama’s race – only with his stupid response to a ridiculous situation that would have been better off left alone.
A small aside here: General Motors handed their bail out money to the Chinese government in order to extend their factories and auto production in China. I’m not sure why they didn’t ask China for the bailout? Oh, wait, yes I am. The Chinese government wouldn’t have given them one red cent. They’re not that gullible.
So now Mr. Obama is promoting a healthcare plan that will cost the American public $835 billion – so far. The plan is so unwieldy that I’m pretty sure no one, not even the lady who had to type it all up, knows what it says. The one thing that has been noted is that families who don’t subscribe to some form of health insurance will be fined $3,800. Maybe that’s how Congress plans to raise the $835 billion?
Stick with me here while I do the math on all this. $850 billion + $35 billion + $835 Billion = 1.720 TRILLION dollars of non existent taxpayer dollars earmarked for spending in less than a year by our first, partially African American president.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not on this rant because Mr. Obama is partially African American. I’m on this rant because I do have a brain and I am living and breathing in America. I’m ranting because I do resent someone who would give my hard earned money to crooks and thieves who have either stolen from the accounts of or raped the American people by stealing their jobs and giving them to the Mexicans and Chinese in order to make greater profits.
I am ranting because it is unbelievable to me that anyone would look at what has taken place in the last year and still have the gall to say people are picking on Mr. Obama because he’s our first partial African American president!
Have you lost your minds? Do you seriously think the caucasians would be sitting around saying ‘gee, we’re so glad the white guy in office dumped us into the cesspool of a 1.720 trillion dollar debt’ if John McCain had gotten into office and committed these financial atrocities? If you do, then it’s time for more than a change in American government; it’s time for a change in its people.
9/16/09 – 11:25 p.m.
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