Saturday
Feb062010
Give 'em hell, Harry
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 10:12AM 
Someone once asked Harry Truman what the post office motto ("Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night...") means. He said, "It means they deliver mail in the wintertime."
Now my wife tells me they won't deliver mail today. This after I dug out my SUV at 6 a.m. to drive her to work. I guess the buck stops with the Mount Penn postmaster.
I suppose I'll get my Reading Eagle delivered on Monday, too, although, believe me, that's far less crucial than my Netflix.
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Here's looking (up) at you, kid!
Does anybody out there have any memory Of the reason given for the establishment
Of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
During the Carter Administration?
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 on 08-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
AND NOW IT'S 2009, 32 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!
It has not created one BTU, kilowatt, or single drop of oil.. The only energy produced by the Dept of Energy is the rapid flow of taxpayer dollars!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
Al, unless you're getting the Reading Eagle free in place of severance or you're house training a bunch of puppies, why the hell would you want to keep getting the paper?