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Dear Mrs. Ms. Sir or whatever you call yourselves:
I’m in the process of renewing my passport and still cannot believe this.
How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a cable TV from them in 1987 (23 years ago), and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? Ever heard of computers?
My birth date you have in my social security file. It’s on EVERY income tax form I’ve filed for the past 30 years. It’s on my Medicarehealth insurance card and my driver’s license, it’s on the last eight damn passports I’ve had, it’s on every stupid customs declaration form I’ve had to fill out before being allowed off the plane for the last 30 years. And it’s on all those census forms that we have to do at election times.
Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother’s name is Maryanne, my father’s name is Robert and I’m reasonably confident that neither name is likely to change between now and when I die.
Between you an’ me, I’ve had enough of this bureaucratic BS!
You send the application to my house, then you ask me for
my #*&#%*& address.
What is going on? You must have a gang of bureaucratic Neanderthalmorons working there!
Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? And “No,” I don’t want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for Christ sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a damn whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days?
If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I’d sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now because I have to go to the other end of the city and get another #*@&#^@*@& copy of my birth certificate to the tune of $100.
Would it be so difficult to have all the services in the same area so I could get a new passport the same day? Nooooo, that would require planning and organization. And it would be too logical for the @&^*^%@% government.
You’d rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off. Then, we have to find some asshole to confirm that it’s really me in the damn picture – you know, the one where we’re not allowed to smile… Hey, you know why we can’t smile?
We’re totally pissed off!
Signed
– An Irate Citizen.
P.S. Remember what I wrote about getting someone to confirm that the picture is me? Well, my family has been in the United States of America since 1776. I have served in the military for something over 35 years and have had security clearances up the ying yang. However, I have to get someone important to verify who I am – you know, someone like my doctor……. WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA!
I’m just having SO much fun this week… sigh… I’m thinking retirement is moving closer and closer. Hell, depending on the election, I may just hang it up next year…
They’re just making you verify the info so they KNOW that it’s REALLY you (LOL)…..seriously, it is crazy that the feds appear to have so little info when the store knows what groceries you ate last month. 🙂
Here in DC, at least: 1) we put the trash out in THEIR trash cans, same place, same time… incompetence more often than not.
2) we put US Mail in THEIR boxes… incompetence.
3) DMV… [sigh, followed by quiet weeping…]
4) Passport? “f” that, I’ll be in the basement waiting for sweet, sweet death.
Maybe part of the jobs stimulus racket?
I’ve done all the international travel I need to.
Best post I’ve read on the net in days. Thanks.
Believe me, with my luck, if I did decide to do something with a chicken or goat, it would end up on YouTube and pictures on the front page of the paper.
And after 35 plus years serving, you are questioning the efficiency of the government? People sitting at desks across the aisle from each other don’t know what each other is doing. They could both be working on your passport for different reasons, and would send out request instead of leaning over and getting it from the other.
But but but … they’re from the gummint; they’re here to HELP.
As far as I’m concerned, they can help themselves – and us – mostly by finding the nearest exit & slinking quietly home.
LOL! And remember if you look like your passport photo you are too sick to travel.
True Story Time. A few years back, right after Barry and the Communists took over the Gooberment, we filled out our Federal Taxes and sent them in, and we were waiting for our Refund. Waiting, waiting,waiting, time marches on, so we finally get a Form Letter from the IRS stating that per Instructions, we answered question Whatever with the Figures from the Provided Table. They wanted to know why we put the Correct Answer in the Correct Spot! Carol and I just looked at it, scratched our heads, and sent back the Following Response: “We put down those Figures from the Table because, according to the Question, YOU told us to!” Then we sent it back.
The check arrived two weeks later.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Government only enforces laws on law abiding citizens. We would be better off being illegals when it comes to forms and paperwork.
You know, I’ve found out that they don’t give you the run-around if your paying for the expensive expedited service. The government is like the mob, all they want is more money!
This is why the scariest phrase in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Dave
*is: I’m here…
Damn, first comment on this blog and I get my grammar wrong!
‘Mother’ ‘Father’ changing to ‘Parent One’ ‘Parent Two’ on passport applications. State Department spokesperson says “This is not an act of political correctness”.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/07/passport-applications-soon-gender-neutral/
My sweet little wife went to pick up the pistol we transferred to her name, and she took her car registration is as proof of residence. She changed her driver’s license to her new married name, but when she looked at the car registration, it still has her other name on it.
Wouldn’t you think the DMV would notice her change on her driver’s license, and automatically send her a new registration?
NOPE!
But they sure do send out the renewals fast…….
Joey- Shaddap 🙂
Russell- I don’t have a choice!
WSF- Nah, it’s been this way for the past 30 years at least!
Larry- I wish!
Stephen- Thanks!
CP- You DO have a point Sir!
Rev- You, shaddap too! 🙂
Keads- Drunk maybe, but not sick!!!
Les- NOT surprised!
LL- Well said! Hamlet???
ADM- Point!
Andy- It’s ALWAYS about money
Scotch- Don’t worry about it, I ‘got’ the point… I kant spel ither… 🙂
Navy- Yeah, right! Pull the other one!!!
drjim- Yep, don’t they though!!!
I just went and did the appointment to get my TWIC badge done.
A quick and easy 15 minutes and I was out of there. I was greatly confused, I had brought my entire life story in a folder, and never opened the damn thing. What was going on?
At the end, when it came time to pay the fee, the lady said “Make your check payable to Lockheed Martin.”
Aah. I see.
Pretty much the same here when I got my TWIC. The place was crowded as we got ours as soon as the facility opened, but I was in and out in about 30 minutes, ONLY due to the crowding.
I had to get mine reissued, as it was in the group issued before their “data loss” incident, but I did it all over the phone, it came in on time, and took about ten minutes to pick it up.
There sure were some characters in there, though, trying to get a TWIC.
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We’re from the government and we’re here to help you…
Yeah.
MSgt/drjim- You must have been ‘pre-cleared’… And yeah, Lockmart is running that!
Crucis- Point!