Posted on 02/09/2010 8:19:48 AM PST by kcvl
This thread does not deliver. It’s not that funny.
;)
Yeah, I know: It was to reduce the amount of imported oil!
Agreed!
Communities should run the schools - not unions. Hire and fire whom they wish.
Nowadays the elementary schools are flooded with homosexual teachers.
World’s Funniest Joke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmnOpoGAPw
Reagan’s Admin began the Dept of Edumacation...................
As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology.
On January 7, 1980, Carter signed Law H.R. 5860 aka Public Law 96-185 known as The Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 bailing out Chrysler Corporation. He led the plan to deregulate the airline industry. He canceled military pay raises.
The DoE was created to lower our dependence on foreign oil, but today we use 45% more than when Carter started it.
DoE’s 15,000 workers “need” $24 billion a year to complete its mystery assignment, yet it gives us nothing in return.
Carter’s worst damage is the DoE. It never produced anything but wasted the time and money needed to achieve American energy independent.
From the day it started, DoE has always been a bureaucrat’s affirmative action dream. Its first Secretary was the first Republican appointed by a Democrat. From there it was headed by a series of “the firsts.” There was the first Black female and the first Asian male at its helm. It has never produced anything that could not have been provided by a small office in a government office building’s basement.
Carter’s Action just moved it up to Cabinet Level. We had it before in a different name.
June 29, 1973
President Nixon establishes the Energy Policy Office.
November 7, 1973
President Nixon launches Project Independence, with the goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency by 1980. Recalling the Manhattan Project, Nixon declares that American science, technology, and industry can free the United States from dependence on foreign oil.
December 4, 1973
The Federal Energy Office replaces the Energy Policy Office. The new office is assigned the task of allocating reduced petroleum supplies to refiners and consumers and of controlling the price of oil and gasoline.
May 7, 1974
President Nixon signs the Federal Administration Act of 1974. The Federal Energy Administration replaces the Federal Energy Office.
October 11, 1974
President Ford signs the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. The Atomic Energy Commission is abolished. The Energy Research and Development Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Energy Resources Council are established.
January 19, 1975
The Energy Research and Development Administration is activated.
December 22, 1975
President Ford signs the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, extending oil price controls into 1979, mandating automobile fuel economy standards, and authorizing creation of a strategic petroleum reserve.
April 18, 1977
President Carter announces National Energy Plan in his first major energy speech. His plan calls for the establishment of an energy department.
August 4, 1977
President Carter signs the Department of Energy Organization Act. The Federal Energy Administration and Energy Research and Development Administration are abolished.
October 1, 1977
DOE is activated. Bringing together a score of organizational entities from a dozen departments and agencies, the new department is also given responsibility for the nuclear weapons program.
November 9, 1978
President Carter signs the National Energy Act, which includes the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, the Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act, the Energy Tax Act, and the Natural Gas Policy Act.
April 5, 1979
President Carter, responding to growing energy shortages, announces gradual decontrol of oil prices and proposes windfall profits tax.
July 10, 1979
President Carter proclaims a national energy supply shortage and establishes temperature restrictions in nonresidential buildings.
July 15, 1979
President Carter declares energy to be the immediate test of ability to unite the Nation and proposes $88 billion decade-long effort to enhance production of synthetic fuels from coal and shale oil reserves.
June 30, 1980
President Carter signs the Energy Security Act, consisting of six major acts: U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act, Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act, Renewable Energy Resources Act, Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act and Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank Act, Geothermal Energy Act, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act.
January 28, 1981
President Reagan signs Executive Order 12287, which provides for the decontrol of crude oil and refined petroleum products.
More at:
http://www.energy.gov/about/timeline1971-1980.htm
That’s not funny. That’s nauseating.
It allows our masters, the oligarchy, to continue to have an excuse for their being our parasites....whiel We the People allow it to continue...
I got tired of it after about the 5th “are you ready” type thing. Sorry — was there a punchline?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one...
Guy goes into a bar, there’s a robot bartender.
The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini.” The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “168”. The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration and medical technology.
The guy leaves, but he is curious, so he goes back into the bar. The robot bartender says,” What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini”. Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “100.” The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, Budweiser and John Deere tractors.
The guy leaves, but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time. He goes back into the bar. The robot says, “What will you have?” The guy says, “Martini”, and the robot brings him another great martini. The robot then says, “What’s your IQ?” The guy says, “Uh, about 50.” The robot leans in real close and says, “So, you people still happy you voted for Obama?”
Department of Education was formed with the Department of Education Organization Act and signed by Jimmy Carter in October 17, 1979
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/33/08/c6.pdf
It did not begin Operations until the following year.
Hey, what a great idea! You take a kid smoking weed, maybe snorting some coke, stick him in prison with a bunch of actual hard core bone-thugs to train him up good, add in some unrealistic minimum sentencing, and you can graduate a REAL criminal with an understandably sharp axe to grind against the society that sat by and allowed this travesty in the first place.
And the really good news? It only costs us hundreds of billions of dollars, and incalculable cost in terms of human life and suffering while we keep weed illegal so that gangs can kill over its profits.
Yeah, I say we turn over the entire economy to the geniuses who still pursue such wonderful schemes, now that we know how good it works out for everyone, and what a great deal it is.
;-/
If all they want is to feel good, give them a roll of quarters and send them to the arcade. But, get them out of lives of Americans, and SOON!
We can’t afford making them feel good, anymore.
It’s time to take back the country.
Department of Transportation *In 1967, under LBJ
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November 9, 1978
President Carter signs the National Energy Act, which includes the National Energy Conservation Policy Act, the Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act, the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act, the Energy Tax Act, and the Natural Gas Policy Act.
April 5, 1979
President Carter, responding to growing energy shortages, announces gradual decontrol of oil prices and proposes windfall profits tax.
June 20, 1979
President Carter announces program to increase Nation’s use of solar energy, including solar development bank and increased funds for solar energy research and development.
July 10, 1979
President Carter proclaims a national energy supply shortage and establishes temperature restrictions in nonresidential buildings.
July 15, 1979
President Carter declares energy to be the immediate test of ability to unite the Nation and proposes $88 billion decade-long effort to enhance production of synthetic fuels from coal and shale oil reserves.
June 30, 1980
President Carter signs the Energy Security Act, consisting of six major acts: U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act, Biomass Energy and Alcohol Fuels Act, Renewable Energy Resources Act, Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act and Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank Act, Geothermal Energy Act, and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act.
You have been reading my mind (poor you) as I was going to say the same thing, but lets not forget what republican admin. gave us...EPA, americans with diabilities act (which at one time had a legally blind man sue for a bus drivers job...I think the EPA was Nixon and AWD was Bush 1 and homeland insecurity was Bush 2 I am sure there are others just don’t remember them...
DoE assumed control of the Nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and that is a very large sum of money.
Writing that, the liberal DoE should have never been allowed control of the nukes. That should have been left to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The DoE hierarchy never cared much for the weapons except as a cash cow to allow for bigger budgets that could be used for purposes other than our Nation's defense.
Don’t think so, it was Carter paying off the teachers unions..
This is one of the reasons oligarchy's always atrophy. They run out of minds and ideas...both of which will always eventually displace the stagnant status quo. Our oligarchy has’nt yet started to try to eliminate competing minds.
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