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? I 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? 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. 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, Health Care, and Automotive industry over to them? God Help us.

Here are some interesting quotes from Ronald Reagan:

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."

"Remember government can't solve your problems, they are the problem."