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Misc Forums => NON LSR Posting => Topic started by: Ron Gibson on July 08, 2015, 10:23:14 AM
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THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
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 was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"
So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer 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 $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."
So they laid-off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read 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 2015 -- 38 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
38 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTHCARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
Hello! Anybody Home?
Signed
The Night Watchman
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Hey Ron, that should have been put in the humor section.... :|
Oh wait... it ain't that funny... too true to be funny :evil:
:cheers:
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"Government is not the solution to our problems ... government IS the problem"
Ronald Reagan
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38 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
In 2014, 27% of US petroleum used was foreign imports. But let's not let facts get in the way of a good laugh.
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Bill
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan
Bill
Yeah, that social security check I got this morning has me really petrified.
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I think the point is, 116,000 "GOVERNMENT" paid people, for WHAT?????
Ron
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I think the point is, 116,000 "GOVERNMENT" paid people, for WHAT?????
Ron
Division
Funding (in billions)
Nuclear Security $11.5
Energy and Environment $9.5
Science $4.9
Management $0.25
Other $0.85
Total $27
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Well, let's go back to the original document -
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-91/pdf/STATUTE-91-Pg565.pdf
Given that the department also oversees nuclear energy development and waste storage, lease rights, native American energy negotiations, fracking, oil exploration, natural gas development, wind technology, the electrical grid, along with energy transportation and energy conservation, is it any surprise that as we produce more domestic energy every year, the department gets bigger?
The law actually consolidated existing departments.
I also remember waiting in line for gas, and that it took 4 years to pass any legislation to address that issue.
I doubt congress could pass a fart in four years today.
Yeah, I like to gripe about the government as well, but then I see countries where the government is weak and not internally respected, where anarchy takes its place, like Syria, Libya and Yemen, and I get to thinking something as inconsequential as a department of energy is something I'll put up with.
There's a difference between getting fleeced and getting slaughtered.
I'll take the hair cut.
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Social Security is nothing more than YOUR money coming back to you.
That account is being pilfered daily by bureaucrats who have insulated and isolated themselves above the law, to fund programs that were iniatiated without public input, referendum or vote, and the overwhelming majority would vote against.
The ship is sinking, the politicians have commadeered the life boats and The New World Order is coming to a neighborhood near you ... soon!
DonS
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That account is being pilfered daily by bureaucrats who have insulated and isolated themselves above the law, to fund programs that were iniatiated without public input, referendum or vote, and the overwhelming majority would vote against.
The larger and better known programs under the Social Security Administration, SSA, are:
Federal Old-Age (Retirement), Survivors, and Disability Insurance, OASDI
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, TANF
Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled, Medicare
Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs for low income citizens, Medicaid
State Children's Health Insurance Program for low income citizens, SCHIP
Supplemental Security Income, SSI
Which of these would you and this overwhelming majority vote against?
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Almost all or at least heavily modify so needy only get benefits.
Galveston Texas city employees did away with SS and they get 3 to 4 times the amount monthly checks as SS. (Google it) We aren't allowed to do that.
Too many un-needy or not qualified getting benefits of most programs.
Gov programs advertising for clients so they can keep all the federal caseworkers. etc.etc.
Ron
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Agreed!
Every one of those programs is corrupted, polluted, perverted and gamed past the breaking point.
Maybe(?) if the gamers, an entire subculture, were excised from the system, some of those programs could function as intended(?)
By the way, the 'larger and better known' list might have been missing a couple of irrelevant, low-key programs; welfare and food stamps.
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Okay - time for me to step in and ask you folks out there in internet land - to steer your posts back to land speed racing. :-) Thanks. :-)
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Okay - time for me to step in and ask you folks out there in internet land - to steer your posts back to land speed racing. :-) Thanks. :-)
I'm sorry for allowing myself to be sucked into this discussion. It doesn't belong here.
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I'd rather "discuss" making a racing engine out of a Ford Flathead or even out of a 4 valved piece of British tinfoil . . . . . .
:-D
Fordboy
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I'd rather "discuss" making a racing engine out of a Ford Flathead or even out of a 4 valved piece of British tinfoil . . . . . .
:-D
Fordboy
Word. I don't even know you, but I'd sure rather disgust the concepts of internal combustion than those of infernal discussion...