Absolutely the funniest joke ever... ON US!!!

I know… I know… I wasn’t going to opine any further this weekend! Going to relax… Watch some baseball & some football… Concentrate on improving my Fantasy Football line-up! Well, I just couldn’t help myself after seeing this one… Besides, it’s fun to illustrate why I always tell people, “I don’t care how you feel; I just care about what you THINK!”… And this one will blow your mind! The following is an edited / enhanced version of an anonymously penned piece which was sent to me by a friend in Houston...

Absolutely the funniest joke ever... ON US!!!

Read this and let it sink in... “Quietly we go like sheep to slaughter.”

Does anybody out there have any recollection of 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 hundreds billion of dollars to fund an agency... The reason for which it was created... No one can remember. Ready for the answer? It was very simple, and at the time everyone thought it very appropriate...

The Department of Energy was created on August 4th, 1977…

TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL!

Hey! Pretty effective outfit, huh? Now it’s 2009... 32 years later… And the budget for this “necessary” Cabinet level department now stands at $24.2 billion dollars a year! It now has 16,000 full-time government employees and approximately 100,000 contract employees. And just take a look at the marvelously wonderful job it has done to accomplish it’s solitary mission & reason for coming into existence! We have gone from importing less than 30% of our crude oil consumption to more than 65%! HEY! That’s going in the WRONG direction!

I’ll tell you what… Give me just one, single payment of ONE billion dollars, and I’ll have the original mission accomplished within one year… Declare “Victory”… Turn off the lights... Shut the doors & lock it all up!

Now, this is where you slap yourself in the forehead and ask, "WHAT Were We THINKING?" Ah, Yes! Good old government bureaucratic efficiency!

And NOW we’re going to turn the banking & financial systems, all of healthcare and the auto industry over to these same geniuses? Unbelievable, right? Yeah… Unbelievably STUPID!!!

May God Protect Us From Ourselves!