A guy stopped at a local gas station, and after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. So, while one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole. The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the road.
“I can’t stand this,” said the man tossing the can into a trash container and headed down the road toward the men. “Hold it, hold it,” he said to the men. “Can you tell me what is going on here with all this digging and refilling?”
The first man replied, “Well, we work for the government and we are just doing our job.”
“But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You are not accomplishing anything. Aren’t you wasting taxpayer money?”
“You don’t understand, mister,” The first man said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. “Normally there are three of us: Me, an’ Elmer, an’ Leroy. I dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt back. But ya see, with the government sequestering, they are NOT buying any more trees so Elmer’s job
has been cut. So now it’s just me an’ Leroy.
Jack, I also sent the joke to someone who replied with “No Joke” when he was in the service there were 5 guys putting up a metal sign on a building, one to hold the sign in place, one to drill the hole, one to put in the anchor, the fourth put in the bolt, and one watched, He said they were civillian workers from the Corp of Engineers.
Wow… guess that joke is on us?