[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')AN 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.

[Keith_McClary]

Try http://mojos.com

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '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?

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', 'T')ry http://mojos.com

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', ' ') 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

[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]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')o you hate government workers? DMV in particular. Would you license a serial drunk? Or just give him the keys to the truck?

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '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

[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]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('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".

[diemos]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'S')hould we just have outright slavery so workers don't have to be paid at all?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('diemos', '
')
You'll notice that none of the slaves down on the plantation were ever worried about finding a job.

[BasilBoy]

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