Meditation On A Trip To The Dmv
I arrived at the DMV yesterday at nine AM. My position out came upwards at 5:45 -- you lot induce got to hold off anxiously all twenty-four hours every bit you lot induce got 10 seconds to answer to your number. At 6:05, 10 hours after arrival. I was informed it was besides belatedly to accept my written exam too hence I would induce 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 teach an appointment, too hence if you lot necessitate something directly or can't mass a gratis twenty-four hours 2 months ahead of time, you lot wait. 10 hours. Then you lot nevertheless teach an appointment to supply 2 weeks after every bit they won't teach 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 one-time corrupt, bankrupt, Illinois, tin operate a vaguely functional DMV. (Direct election of the secretarial assistant of dry reason may induce got something to produce amongst that.)
Estonia, this is not. Piles of newspaper menses around. Technology is most 1992 -- at that topographic point is a position out system, too hence you lot don't stand upwards inwards business for 10 hours. But no indication where you lot are inwards the queue or when they mightiness teach to you.
Rebellion was inwards the air. Most people produce non induce got my fourth dimension flexibility. The really dainty lady side yesteryear side to me had taken the twenty-four hours off piece of job too had to adjust pocket-size care, which was going to terminate at a finite time. This was her minute twenty-four hours of waiting. She was create to laid out the revolution.
This is non unusual. It's but a completely normal twenty-four hours downwards at the DMV.
The joke has been to a greater extent than or less a long time: Do you lot genuinely desire the people who run the DMV to operate your wellness attention too insurance system? But it is a practiced joke. The DMV is the principal interface most people induce got with the performance or lack thereof of a bureaucracy.
The irony is that the democratic candidates inwards California are falling all over themselves to move stronger on "single-payer" wellness -- which does non but hateful 1 fallback, but that all others are banned.
The amazing affair is that citizens of this noble dry reason are all for it, though they must, similar me, each accept their plough inwards the 10 hr business at the DMV. (I suspect many high income progressives produce non realize that "single payer" agency them too. No concierge medicine.)
Republicans: I advise you lot gear upwards tables exterior the DMV. After all, at that topographic point is motor voter registration too this mightiness teach people inwards a practiced frame of heed for your message.
Second thought: Things could move worse. The DMV is good proxy for the character of regime institutions. In many countries inwards the basis you lot must pay a bribe to teach a driver's license. In many other countries you lot tin pay a bribe to cutting through swaths of paperwork. At to the lowest degree inwards the U.S.A. you lot can't produce that.
But at that topographic point are countries where regime genuinely works. When our friends on the left dream of Scandinavian wellness care, maybe they should take in a Scandinavian DMV first, too concur that let's run into if our regime tin run a DMV earlier it tackles wellness care. And don't become after me amongst taxes -- the toll of a functional DMV is non that high. This 1 but needs to expand to jibe the increment inwards its population too 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 offset 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 teach an appointment, too hence if you lot necessitate something directly or can't mass a gratis twenty-four hours 2 months ahead of time, you lot wait. 10 hours. Then you lot nevertheless teach an appointment to supply 2 weeks after every bit they won't teach 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 one-time corrupt, bankrupt, Illinois, tin operate a vaguely functional DMV. (Direct election of the secretarial assistant of dry reason may induce got something to produce amongst that.)
Estonia, this is not. Piles of newspaper menses around. Technology is most 1992 -- at that topographic point is a position out system, too hence you lot don't stand upwards inwards business for 10 hours. But no indication where you lot are inwards the queue or when they mightiness teach to you.
Rebellion was inwards the air. Most people produce non induce got my fourth dimension flexibility. The really dainty lady side yesteryear side to me had taken the twenty-four hours off piece of job too had to adjust pocket-size care, which was going to terminate at a finite time. This was her minute twenty-four hours of waiting. She was create to laid out the revolution.
This is non unusual. It's but a completely normal twenty-four hours downwards at the DMV.
The joke has been to a greater extent than or less a long time: Do you lot genuinely desire the people who run the DMV to operate your wellness attention too insurance system? But it is a practiced joke. The DMV is the principal interface most people induce got with the performance or lack thereof of a bureaucracy.
The irony is that the democratic candidates inwards California are falling all over themselves to move stronger on "single-payer" wellness -- which does non but hateful 1 fallback, but that all others are banned.
The amazing affair is that citizens of this noble dry reason are all for it, though they must, similar me, each accept their plough inwards the 10 hr business at the DMV. (I suspect many high income progressives produce non realize that "single payer" agency them too. No concierge medicine.)
Republicans: I advise you lot gear upwards tables exterior the DMV. After all, at that topographic point is motor voter registration too this mightiness teach people inwards a practiced frame of heed for your message.
Second thought: Things could move worse. The DMV is good proxy for the character of regime institutions. In many countries inwards the basis you lot must pay a bribe to teach a driver's license. In many other countries you lot tin pay a bribe to cutting through swaths of paperwork. At to the lowest degree inwards the U.S.A. you lot can't produce that.
But at that topographic point are countries where regime genuinely works. When our friends on the left dream of Scandinavian wellness care, maybe they should take in a Scandinavian DMV first, too concur that let's run into if our regime tin run a DMV earlier it tackles wellness care. And don't become after me amongst taxes -- the toll of a functional DMV is non that high. This 1 but needs to expand to jibe the increment inwards its population too 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 offset appointment at Redwood City is 4 months out, the concluding fourth dimension I looked.
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