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Originally Posted by cartman
Why do you think those two things are mutually exclusive? Wouldn't an inefficient DMV cause the amount of time you'd have to allocate to get something done at the DMV increase?
edit: in any event, your scenario isn't one that has anything to do with efficiency, it is a simple ability to process situation. If the DMV was sized to handle several hundred to a thousand people in a two hours span, but on average only sees a few dozen in a two hour span, then there would be calls of why such a waste and an example of government bloat.
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The DMV has been built to handle thousands of people through local branch offices, there isn't just one DMV in America.
Nobody wants Al Sharpton to hold their hand into the DMV to get an ID, at least, I hope nobody does. When you become an adult, you can pretty much do it on your own...it would be pretty hard for some people to get to wherever Al Sharpton is anyway, so it's best to go to the DMV closest to you, the State of California (for example) has built 188 branch offices to account for this, using our tax dollars mind you, and I would like to think that has been effective to account for California's population. When I lived in Los Angeles during the 90's, it was a mad house, but me and about 4 million other people always got our drivers licenses and registration renewed.
Have you ever been in a DMV before? Yeah it sucks, but we all share that suffering together while we wait. There are people from all walks of life and all circumstances in there....well to do people, blue collar, white collar, unemployed, handicapped people, blind people (probably going for the ID card there), people who need translation services, elderly people, young people, black people, Hispanic people, white people, smart people, dumb people, Republicans and Democrats...lots of people are in the DMV getting their licenses. That's why I have no doubt that the vast majority of Americans can do this but what truly makes up the large majority of people who don't have photo ID isn't Republican lawmakers, but those here illegally and what I suspect is the vast majority...lazy assed people that don't want to make the trip. I'm sure there is some small number of people that have tried and tried and tried and failed completely due to circumstances out of their control, but it's not many. It's really easy if you *want* to do it.
And I showed the 2010 consensus earlier, the numbers are really close. 66% of white people have registered, 64% of black people, more elderly (75%) than young people (50%) have registered, more young black people than white people registered (and voted) in 2010...it's not race related or age related at all. It's the give a shit factor. Don't blame Republicans if your base doesn't give a shit. But the reality though is that the give-a-shit factor is pretty equally distributed between R's and D's.