Meditation On A Trip To The Dmv
I arrived at the DMV yesterday at ix AM. My give away came upwards at 5:45 -- y'all stimulate got to hold off anxiously all twenty-four hours equally y'all stimulate got 10 seconds to answer to your number. At 6:05, 10 hours after arrival. I was informed it was also belatedly to stimulate got my written exam together with thence I would stimulate got to come upwards back. As park the house was packed, no food, no drink, 2 filthy restrooms.
(California has an appointment organisation but it takes 2 months to larn an appointment, together with thence if y'all postulate something straightaway or can't mass a gratis twenty-four hours 2 months ahead of time, y'all wait. 10 hours. Then y'all all the same larn an appointment to supply 2 weeks afterward equally they won't larn to you.)
Despite 13.2% peak income taxation rate, 7.5-9.5% sales tax, gas taxed to $3.80 a gallon, California cannot operate a functional DMV. Even Illinois, practiced quondam corrupt, bankrupt, Illinois, tin operate a vaguely functional DMV. (Direct election of the secretarial assistant of solid lay down may stimulate got something to create amongst that.)
Estonia, this is not. Piles of newspaper menstruum around. Technology is virtually 1992 -- in that place is a give away system, together with thence y'all don't stand upwards inwards business for 10 hours. But no indication where y'all are inwards the queue or when they mightiness larn to you.
Rebellion was inwards the air. Most people create non stimulate got my fourth dimension flexibility. The really prissy lady adjacent to me had taken the twenty-four hours off piece of occupation together with had to adjust modest care, which was going to halt at a finite time. This was her 2nd twenty-four hours of waiting. She was cook to laid out the revolution.
This is non unusual. It's merely a completely normal twenty-four hours downwards at the DMV.
The joke has been around a long time: Do y'all genuinely desire the people who run the DMV to operate your wellness assist together with insurance system? But it is a practiced joke. The DMV is the principal interface most people stimulate got with the surgical procedure or lack thereof of a bureaucracy.
The irony is that the democratic candidates inwards California are falling all over themselves to live on stronger on "single-payer" wellness -- which does non merely hateful 1 fallback, but that all others are banned.
The amazing affair is that citizens of this noble solid lay down are all for it, though they must, similar me, each stimulate got their plough inwards the 10 threescore minutes business at the DMV. (I suspect many high income progressives create non realize that "single payer" way them too. No concierge medicine.)
Republicans: I propose y'all develop tables exterior the DMV. After all, in that place is motor voter registration together with this mightiness larn people inwards a practiced frame of hear for your message.
Second thought: Things could live on worse. The DMV is good proxy for the lineament of authorities institutions. In many countries inwards the the world y'all must pay a bribe to larn a driver's license. In many other countries y'all tin pay a bribe to cutting through swaths of paperwork. At to the lowest degree inwards the U.S.A. y'all can't create that.
But in that place are countries where authorities genuinely works. When our friends on the left dream of Scandinavian wellness care, maybe they should take in a Scandinavian DMV first, together with concord that let's encounter if our authorities tin run a DMV earlier it tackles wellness care. And don't become after me amongst taxes -- the terms of a functional DMV is non that high. This 1 merely needs to expand to gibe the increment inwards its population together with the complexity of the diverse laws it has passed.
Update:
There is a exceptional DMV business office for legislators only, reports the Sacramento Bee. In the meantime, the commencement appointment at Redwood City is 4 months out, the concluding fourth dimension I looked.
(California has an appointment organisation but it takes 2 months to larn an appointment, together with thence if y'all postulate something straightaway or can't mass a gratis twenty-four hours 2 months ahead of time, y'all wait. 10 hours. Then y'all all the same larn an appointment to supply 2 weeks afterward equally they won't larn to you.)
Despite 13.2% peak income taxation rate, 7.5-9.5% sales tax, gas taxed to $3.80 a gallon, California cannot operate a functional DMV. Even Illinois, practiced quondam corrupt, bankrupt, Illinois, tin operate a vaguely functional DMV. (Direct election of the secretarial assistant of solid lay down may stimulate got something to create amongst that.)
Estonia, this is not. Piles of newspaper menstruum around. Technology is virtually 1992 -- in that place is a give away system, together with thence y'all don't stand upwards inwards business for 10 hours. But no indication where y'all are inwards the queue or when they mightiness larn to you.
Rebellion was inwards the air. Most people create non stimulate got my fourth dimension flexibility. The really prissy lady adjacent to me had taken the twenty-four hours off piece of occupation together with had to adjust modest care, which was going to halt at a finite time. This was her 2nd twenty-four hours of waiting. She was cook to laid out the revolution.
This is non unusual. It's merely a completely normal twenty-four hours downwards at the DMV.
The joke has been around a long time: Do y'all genuinely desire the people who run the DMV to operate your wellness assist together with insurance system? But it is a practiced joke. The DMV is the principal interface most people stimulate got with the surgical procedure or lack thereof of a bureaucracy.
The irony is that the democratic candidates inwards California are falling all over themselves to live on stronger on "single-payer" wellness -- which does non merely hateful 1 fallback, but that all others are banned.
The amazing affair is that citizens of this noble solid lay down are all for it, though they must, similar me, each stimulate got their plough inwards the 10 threescore minutes business at the DMV. (I suspect many high income progressives create non realize that "single payer" way them too. No concierge medicine.)
Republicans: I propose y'all develop tables exterior the DMV. After all, in that place is motor voter registration together with this mightiness larn people inwards a practiced frame of hear for your message.
Second thought: Things could live on worse. The DMV is good proxy for the lineament of authorities institutions. In many countries inwards the the world y'all must pay a bribe to larn a driver's license. In many other countries y'all tin pay a bribe to cutting through swaths of paperwork. At to the lowest degree inwards the U.S.A. y'all can't create that.
But in that place are countries where authorities genuinely works. When our friends on the left dream of Scandinavian wellness care, maybe they should take in a Scandinavian DMV first, together with concord that let's encounter if our authorities tin run a DMV earlier it tackles wellness care. And don't become after me amongst taxes -- the terms of a functional DMV is non that high. This 1 merely needs to expand to gibe the increment inwards its population together with the complexity of the diverse laws it has passed.
Update:
There is a exceptional DMV business office for legislators only, reports the Sacramento Bee. In the meantime, the commencement appointment at Redwood City is 4 months out, the concluding fourth dimension I looked.
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