[mattduke]

SAN DIEGO – Wearing purple union shirts and carrying signs, some 25 to 30 Department of Motor Vehicles employees picketed in front of the Hillcrest DMV office Monday morning to protest Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's move to slash state workers' pay.
The group chanted “Value us, Value us” and “$6.55 has got to go” as they marched in a protest that lasted from 7:30 to 8 a.m. at the DMV office on Normal Street near University Avenue.

Words cannot describe the immense, complex pleasure I receive from this story. I LOVE the sign stating "DMV workers register your vehicles!" Oh my god. This particular species of goon is one of the few that actually must interact with their victim and nutrition source, the taxpayers, and they are never happy about it are they? Actually, I would be amenable to continue paying these "workers" to NOT work, and close down the DMV altogether.
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/m ... 04dmv.html

[Keith_McClary]

Try http://mojos.com

[mattduke]

I am getting tired of your supposed libertarian anti-government rants. So you hate government workers? DMV in particular. Would you license a serial drunk? Or just give him the keys to the truck?

You are free to ignore my posts. Are you seriously arguing that DMV registrations reduces drunk driving?

What do you do that is so gawdawful important to me?

I don't steal from you.

[Keith_McClary]

Try http://mojos.com

Sure privatize everything. Here is the plan. Privatize the local police force. Privatize the EPA. Privatize the hospitals.

Nah, we have socialized medicine, I'm happy with that.

I was a bit nervous about having these private "registries" do driver testing - some of them are also in the driving school business and guarantee you'll get your license.

[Outcast_Searcher]

Actually, I would be amenable to continue paying these "workers" to NOT work, and close down the DMV altogether.
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/m ... 04dmv.html

+1

Or how about just running such entities with a LITTLE bit of intelligence and efficiency, and thus:

a). Greatly reduce their budgets.
b). Greatly increase the quality of the service to the taxpayers?

A simple idea as an example -- how about using the internet for the vast majority of "garden variety" registrations? The labor savings would pay to build the infrastructure within a year or two. Good systems could be sold to other cities once this is demonstrated as practical, by the way - perhaps reducing an innovative city's start-up cost to zero or below.

But NOOOOOOOO, having huge lines, limited hours, etc. makes SO much more sense. It's so bad in large cities like Washington DC that there are actually businesses people pay to go stand in line for the half day or so it takes to register your car.

I can just see the left's answer to this -- MORE government to fix it...
After all, the government is here to "take care" of us.

[Pops]

I'm more of a socialist than libertarian privateer but I gotta tell ya, when I moved from CA to MO, I just about crapped my pants when I saw the ad in the local paper:

Free Doughnuts at the DMV every Saturday!

You go in and there are these sweet little old ladies that volunteer and give all the "royalties" or whatever kickbacks are called to a local charity. They said to Susan, "I'm sorry hon, but you are going to need some specs to drive. I use Dr. Blahblah down on the square he's my second cousin's uncle and he's really nice."

I never thought I'd be able to say going to the DMV is just a errand and not a challenge to my sanity.

[Tyler_JC]

I needed a new license and a new photo.

I waited in line A to get a piece of paper.

I filled out said paper.

I waited in line B to hand in this piece of paper.

Turns out they had given me the wrong form so I had to go back in line A to get the correct form and then return to line B to turn it in.

Then I was given a number (#60 something, they were currently working on #20 something).

When they called my number I waited in line C.

Then they took my picture and input the data for my new license.

A month later my new driver's license arrived...with the wrong address.

Fortunately, I just pretended that I used to live at that wrong address so I could get a change of address sticker online and avoid going back to that bureaucratic hell hole.

Mind you, I showed up at the RMV (what we call it here in Mass.) only about an hour after it opened on a Tuesday. If I hadn't eaten breakfast right before then, I'm pretty sure I would have died of starvation waiting for my number to be called.

[Rod_Cloutier]

Food riots are happening again in 3rd world countries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXMFl64kBY

The last thing the world has to worry about is striking vehicle registration workers in California.

[dinopello]

So you hate government workers? DMV in particular. Would you license a serial drunk? Or just give him the keys to the truck?

The DMV's I've been to in Virginia have never posed a problem for me. However, I am a bit sympathetic to the opposition to the government subsidizing automobile travel to the extent they do with stuff like this. Had they stayed mostly out of the transportation arena, we never would have the dominance of automobile travel or the sprawling development we have - the vast majority of the cost being paid for by tax dollars.

[Keith_McClary]

A simple idea as an example -- how about using the internet for the vast majority of "garden variety" registrations? The labor savings would pay to build the infrastructure within a year or two. Good systems could be sold to other cities once this is demonstrated as practical, by the way

Here you go:
http://www.e-registry.ca/

[Sixstrings]

Well if the pay was lowered to $6.55 an hour, then they have good reason to strike. Nobody can live on less than seven bucks an hour, especially in San Diego.

What do you conservatives want anyway? Should we just have outright slavery so workers don't have to be paid at all? Would that finally make you happy?

[Expatriot]

I love the way they use multiple letters and numbers to ensure that nobody is really sure where they are in line.

A34
B138
A35
D98
E3
B139

I like to call it "f--k me bingo".

[Sixstrings]

I love the way they use multiple letters and numbers to ensure that nobody is really sure where they are in line.

A34
B138
A35
D98
E3
B139

I like to call it "f--k me bingo".

Ah, that's so true at every DMV in the US lol. The one I go to is actually pretty darn good.. enough staff, and they have a big digital TV showing the numbers being called and which desk each number should go to. It looks like a train schedule, but works. Never waited more than five minutes.

[diemos]

Should we just have outright slavery so workers don't have to be paid at all?

Are you kidding? Slave owners are on the hook to feed, clothe and house their slaves. It was a brilliant stratagem to tell the slaves that they were free and if they were starving it was their own damn fault for being lazy and shiftless.

You'll notice that none of the slaves down on the plantation were ever worried about finding a job.

[Pretorian]

You'll notice that none of the slaves down on the plantation were ever worried about finding a job.

or about keeping one

[BasilBoy]

pstarr: they don't have the mental capacity to see it. The system of indoctrination is rather powerful...