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In March of 2011 my wife and I quit or jobs, cashed in our chips and left the big city behind to move to our farm hidden away in northeast Georgia. These are our observations on the news of the day and our adventures in homesteading, becoming self reliant, prepping and living a simpler, more fulfilling life.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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.
 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 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 on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR
DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT’S 2012 — 35 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?”)
34 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, slowly, let it sink in. Quietly it seems, we go like sheep to slaughter. But perhaps enough 
or us finally can smell the slaughter house.

1 comment:

  1. I had no idea, that's amazing and sad. $24.2 Billion with the mandate to lesson our dependence on for foreign oil?

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