We don’t usually respond to The
Wichita Eagle’s “Letters to the editor,” but Chuck Jones is probably
typical of the people who wonder how we ended up with such long lines at the Division
of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Jones wrote;
“Every once in a while
The Eagle publishes another story about some poor taxpayer who spent six hours
or more renewing his driver’s license. What is mind-boggling to me is that the
citizens of Kansas are putting up with this absurdity.”
Well Mr. Jones, the people of Kansas not only tolerate this
abuse, they VOTED FOR IT. Governor Sam Brownback and his recently elected
allies promised to make major cuts to the government budget and to provide this
state with a SMALLER GOVERNMENT. They openly fired thousands of public
employees and promised us we would never really miss them.
“The governor should
call in those in charge of this mess and tell them they have three months to
reduce the wait time to 30 minutes or less and that if they can’t do it, they
will be replaced. Repeat as necessary until the problem is fixed.”
The problem here is that the governor IS responsible for
this mess. Brownback created it with the help of his Tea Party Republican
allies, who just got elected about a year ago. The drivers license bureau is
not the only government entity that is being affected by all of this “SMALLER
GOVERNMENT” we were promised. Anyone who needs to call and talk to a person
about any government service will find long waits and anything that is sent to
them, will take three times longer to get. For example, it now takes me six to
eight weeks to receive my new teaching license, rather than the one to two
weeks it took before Brownback. This is what happens when employees are just
let go and no plan is in place to deal with the overload of customers. This is
not California. This is Kansas and it is being promoted as the state of the
future. This is the Tea Party utopia they want to promote in every state of the
union, including California.
So Mr. Jones, warn your California friends that following
the lead of Kansas will lead to this and other forms of frustration to anyone
who needs to use government services. The only way to fix this is to GET RID of
our governor and all his Tea Party friends. THEY CREATED THIS MESS. They lied
and said those workers were not really needed and we would never notice them
being fired.
If you have had to visit the DMV, just learn to get used to
it, because this is the state of the future and this is just part of that
future. Either vote the bums out or just get used to this. It will only get
worse as this “cut to the core” philosophy continues.
So remember Kansas—you voted for this! What did you think
was going to happen?
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