Comments on: Let’s Make Sure To Put These Guys In Charge of Health Care http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13183 Matt Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:01:28 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13183 <p>Despite the fact that, until I encounter somebody else who's been gang-raped and had the lives of their friends and relatives threatened over a dispute with the state driver licensing agency I believe I posess the ultimate trump card, I have a lot of sympathy for this.</p> <p>When "Catch 22" was a novel it was thought of as over-the-top hyperbolic satire. Now many bureaucrats appear to regard it as an instructional manual, if not a religious text.</p> Despite the fact that, until I encounter somebody else who’s been gang-raped and had the lives of their friends and relatives threatened over a dispute with the state driver licensing agency I believe I posess the ultimate trump card, I have a lot of sympathy for this.

When “Catch 22″ was a novel it was thought of as over-the-top hyperbolic satire. Now many bureaucrats appear to regard it as an instructional manual, if not a religious text.

]]> By: tehag http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13182 tehag Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:01:27 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13182 <p>Hmm... if her crime had been robbery, would she be free of prosecution by now? I guess there is not a statute of limitations for everything. </p> Hmm… if her crime had been robbery, would she be free of prosecution by now? I guess there is not a statute of limitations for everything.

]]> By: Jim Collins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13181 Jim Collins Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:29:34 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13181 <p>I wish her luck. As Flash say a lawyer can probably get straightened out for her. The problem is that it shouldn't take a lawyer to do it. Everything in Pennsylvania seems to require the assistance of someone who knows the system. I recieved notice that my Pennsylvania driver's license was going to be suspended because of a violation that I had in Florida. One small problem, I hadn'r been in Florida since 1989 and when I was I had a Florida license. I called PENNDOT and I was informed that I had 45 days to get Florida to issue what is called "a not me" letter. It took Florida 30 days to respond and then when I asked PENNDOT where I should send the letter, they told me that since the letter was sent to me it was invalid, it had to be sent to them. I asked where it should be sent and the person DIDN'T KNOW. By the time I got the letter to the right place it was one day over the 45 day period. It cost me $26.00 to have my license reinstated plus $36.00 for a new license and the ultimate insult of having 5 points addded to my record. Remember one thing. There is no appeal for a PENNDOT descision unless PENNDOT allows it. Remember what happened to the guy who told his doctor that he drank a six pack of beer a day.</p> <p>Get the lawyer Meagan, get your license back and then you have the forum to stirfry PENNDOT. I'll bring the soy sauce.</p> I wish her luck. As Flash say a lawyer can probably get straightened out for her. The problem is that it shouldn’t take a lawyer to do it. Everything in Pennsylvania seems to require the assistance of someone who knows the system. I recieved notice that my Pennsylvania driver’s license was going to be suspended because of a violation that I had in Florida. One small problem, I hadn’r been in Florida since 1989 and when I was I had a Florida license. I called PENNDOT and I was informed that I had 45 days to get Florida to issue what is called “a not me” letter. It took Florida 30 days to respond and then when I asked PENNDOT where I should send the letter, they told me that since the letter was sent to me it was invalid, it had to be sent to them. I asked where it should be sent and the person DIDN’T KNOW. By the time I got the letter to the right place it was one day over the 45 day period. It cost me $26.00 to have my license reinstated plus $36.00 for a new license and the ultimate insult of having 5 points addded to my record. Remember one thing. There is no appeal for a PENNDOT descision unless PENNDOT allows it. Remember what happened to the guy who told his doctor that he drank a six pack of beer a day.

Get the lawyer Meagan, get your license back and then you have the forum to stirfry PENNDOT. I’ll bring the soy sauce.

]]> By: Flash Gordon http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13180 Flash Gordon Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:35:48 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13180 <p>Megan can get this fixed by sending a certified copy of her birth certificate to the PA DOT showing that she is past the age when she became eligible to have her PA license reinstated (even though she never had a PA license). She needs to get it to the correct person, though. She may want to hire a lawyer in Harrisburg to do this for her. She should be able to get this done for a legal fee of no more than $250-500. She can first try to do it herself, and hire a lawyer only if she can't get it done. It would need to be a lawyer with experience doing this sort of thing. It's easy if you know what to do, that's why the fee should not be high. The bureaucrats working in the PA DOT, as in most state licensing agencies, have wide discretion. </p> Megan can get this fixed by sending a certified copy of her birth certificate to the PA DOT showing that she is past the age when she became eligible to have her PA license reinstated (even though she never had a PA license). She needs to get it to the correct person, though. She may want to hire a lawyer in Harrisburg to do this for her. She should be able to get this done for a legal fee of no more than $250-500. She can first try to do it herself, and hire a lawyer only if she can’t get it done. It would need to be a lawyer with experience doing this sort of thing. It’s easy if you know what to do, that’s why the fee should not be high. The bureaucrats working in the PA DOT, as in most state licensing agencies, have wide discretion.

]]> By: Ray G http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13179 Ray G Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:55 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13179 <p>Whenever I get together with other former Marine types, we always speak as if we had the greatest of times; and we did. But then invariably some smart aleck has to ask, "Hey, if it was so great, how come none of us did more than one enlistment?"</p> <p>Because at the unit level, it was all esprit de corps and ooh rah type stuff.</p> <p>Beyond the unit level though - any branch of the military is a government entity after all - it was just one huge bureaucratic nightmare. </p> <p>Guys that had the stomach for 5 or more years - anecdotally speaking, my own experiences here - those guys almost to a man wound up in some kind of union and/or government job. They went over to the dark side. </p> Whenever I get together with other former Marine types, we always speak as if we had the greatest of times; and we did. But then invariably some smart aleck has to ask, “Hey, if it was so great, how come none of us did more than one enlistment?”

Because at the unit level, it was all esprit de corps and ooh rah type stuff.

Beyond the unit level though – any branch of the military is a government entity after all – it was just one huge bureaucratic nightmare.

Guys that had the stomach for 5 or more years – anecdotally speaking, my own experiences here – those guys almost to a man wound up in some kind of union and/or government job. They went over to the dark side.

]]> By: nicole http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13178 nicole Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:24:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13178 <p>Ha, this reminds me of my boyfriend, who at 15 was caught intoxicated (not drinking or buying alcohol) in VT and had his IL license "suspended" (he didn't have one) until he was nineteen. All this did was get him really used to having other people drive him around, and almost ten years later he still doesn't know how to drive or care to get a license. I wonder if something stupid like this would happen if he tried.</p> Ha, this reminds me of my boyfriend, who at 15 was caught intoxicated (not drinking or buying alcohol) in VT and had his IL license “suspended” (he didn’t have one) until he was nineteen. All this did was get him really used to having other people drive him around, and almost ten years later he still doesn’t know how to drive or care to get a license. I wonder if something stupid like this would happen if he tried.

]]> By: Allen http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-13177 Allen Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:17:19 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/08/lets-make-sure-3.html#comment-13177 <p>And here I thought it was bad enough that I had to call in to figure out if I have to change my cars title to CO. I'd think that would easily be addresses in a FAQ but wasn't. This is far, far, far more annoying to say the least. </p> And here I thought it was bad enough that I had to call in to figure out if I have to change my cars title to CO. I’d think that would easily be addresses in a FAQ but wasn’t. This is far, far, far more annoying to say the least.

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