THE HELLISH NIGHTMARE OF DMV BUREAUCRACY
Kelleigh Nelson continues her story of the Tennesse Department of Motor vehicles tyrannical approach to handling bureaucracy. Australia could empathise with her frustration, your system is just as officious from what this monkey hears. Power corrupts: The quote Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely comes from the nineteenth-century English historian Lord Acton (1834–1902) in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton about how historians should judge the abuse of power by past rulers, especially popes. (And in 2024 traffic wardens it seems). Gibber! Gibber! Chugley THE HELLISH NIGHTMARE OF DMV BUREAUCRACY By Kelleigh Nelson In any bureaucracy, there’s a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction. Chris Fussell The minute you’re working with the government, you’re dealing with bureaucracy, you’re dealing with time lags, you’re dealing with rigidity, you’re dealing with a slow pace. Bob Simon Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. Chris Chocola In my previous article, The Authoritarian Tyranny of the DMV, I explained how difficult it has become for women who have changed their last names more than once to attain the new ID driver’s license in order to board an airplane or enter a federal building. If you have been married and divorced, you must have documented proof of the divorce showing your previous name, and Lord help you if you’ve been divorced more than once and cannot even remember what year the divorce occurred. And lucky for the men, they never change their surnames, except for JD Vance. I wonder if the Republican candidate for Vice President has had to prove his name change to renew his license? Highly doubtful. Ultimately, if you…