I owe my soul to da gub'mint store. Florida DMV sells drivers’ license information

[TalkingDog]

http://www.abc-7.com/story/15124857/2011/07/21/fl-agency-sells-drivers-license-information

As if waiting for hours in line to get a drivers' license isn't already aggravating enough, Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles makes about $62-million a year selling your drivers' license information to private companies.

Some of that information includes: your full name, address, date of birth, motor vehicle history and driving restrictions.

[slackmaster]

1. If I lived there, I'd change my last name to Shithead

So that I could complain loudly whenever someone calls me "Mr. Shithead" in public.

Of course if they try to dodge it and call me "Shy-theed" or something, I can just say "My name is Shithead. Can't you read?"

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. LOL!!

:spray: And there goes the coffee!

[originalpckelly]

9. It could totally work to.

"Hello, I'm Mr. Shythead."
"But it looks like shithead?"

:rofl:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Probably because the State of Florida has been left near-bankrupt thanks to no revenue

I don't understand this country, really. How could governments function on no revenue? Why do the rich get to pay comparatively speaking almost nothing into revenue for the country to function? What's wrong with Americans that they cannot figure this out? I'm becoming convinced that there's a generalized state of insanity in this country. Any population willing to believe right wing lies and bullshit, has got to be f nuts.

[Lasher]

3. Selfishness and greed.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Selfishness and greed is what the mega-rich and corporations that sell this to the rest are...

The rest are just, well, STOOPID to swallow the lies. They vote and do things against their own self-interests.

[Lasher]

6. You are absolutely right.

The stupidity is a bigger problem since there's more poor folks than rich people.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. Yep, and they're being asked to give up what little they have, and they DO!

That's stupidity, because one should have one's own self-interest at heart, and at least one's KIDS! But poor people and middle class people in this country are infantile, silly, ignorant, stupid, and will sacrifice themselves and their offspring at the pyre in exchange for a pat in the back from their pastor or right wing leader.

[Lasher]

8. State income taxes are deductible from federal tax returns to prevent double taxation.

But in nine states (like Alaska, Florida, and Texas) where there are no state income taxes –– residents have lobbied for a special carve-out that allows them to deduct sales taxes instead. This tax unfairness forces many of us to foot the bill for the lifestyles of people in other states and we should repeal it, saving $5.5 billion this year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=185x3756

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. And then the f******ds will say that we should put more power in the hands of states.

When power is in the hands of states, things get unbelievably f****d up. God, this country is driving me to look into moving back out of it. You can't even organize a group of protesters, and everyone is so f driven by churches, everything is church, church, church, church, and all the right wing ideology that comes from that.