Posted on 02/09/2010 8:19:48 AM PST by kcvl
Well, it proves the obvious: Put a government agency in motion, and it gathers its own moss, for years.
Now it costs us billions of dollars, and does us no good at all.
My goodness, how stupid.
Why doesn’t Mr. Obama make jokes about himself?
The president got Congress to pass the Emergency Natural Gas Act, which would authorize the national government to allocate interstate natural gas. He created a Department of Energy to regulate existing energy suppliers and fund research on new sources of energy, particularly sustainable (wind and solar power) and ecologically sound sources. His Energy Security Act created the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation, which would provide $20 billion in joint ventures with private industry. Carter signed his first energy package into law on November 9, 1978. The deregulation of oil and natural gas prices that resulted would lead to a vast increase in the supply of energy in the 1980s, and consequently a lowering of prices.
The administration also developed new conservation measures that would sharply reduce industry's use of fuels, as well as automobile mileage standards. Strip mining would now be regulated by the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, a victory for environmentalists.
He killed funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor, because the plutonium reactor technology would increase the risk of nuclear proliferation if adopted elsewhere in the world.
There were allegations that Carter's treasury secretary had allowed a company he chaired to conduct illegal payoffs in doing business. Moreover, the president's chief of staff was accused of using cocaine in the White House.
Libya-a nation that had sponsored terrorism for years-had given Billy Carter nearly $250,000 for an undisclosed reason.
He seemed aloof and condescending, stiff and impersonal with reporters. They chafed at his moralistic, "eat your peas" attitudes, and portrayed him either as either a cynical and manipulative politician or an amateurish incompetent.
As a Carter Admin payoff to the NEA/AFT.
EXACTLY!
WRONG, CARTER!
And because DOE could not manage the nuclear weapons stockpile the National Nuclear Security Administration was created.
And because the new Secretary of Energy is not interested in the weapons the government is deciding where to put NNSA - independent (AEC) or part of DoD.
And DOE is truly an agency that provides welfare payments under the guise of minority employment.
Sickening!
Imagine how good we’d feel if we could keep all that money for ourselves
And how much better off all of us would be!
But it keeps politicians employed who would otherwise be unemployable.
Nearly every national politician since Carter was prez has run on a platform of reducing dependence on foreign oil.
That includes Democrats and Republicans.
And how many of them have been (and will continue to be) re-elected?
Well, that settles it. Jimmy Carter is stupid. But we already knew that. And now we have little Jimmy Carter No. 2 who is trying to beat Jimmy Carter No. 1.
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DRILL, BABY, DRILL until we can't drill any more!
Get the environmentalist out of the way of building refineries and nuclear plants.
Any one of us could figure it out just not politicians who have no guts!
I am reminded of that everyday as I pile up MORE & MORE PAPERWORK required by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!
And it has allowed them to turn congress into a House of Lords! On OUR dime!
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