Outrage of the day: Legislator-only DMV office
A small item on the Sacramento Bee's web site caught my attention today as it illustrates how politicians in California see themselves as royalty of the sort. Here it is, in total:
The Department of Motor Vehicles announced it's eliminating Saturday hours this month to cope with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's layoffs, but one office remains open - if a bit hard to find. The unmarked DMV office, room 121, buried in a dark corner of the Legislative Office Building across the street from the Capitol, is devoted to serving the Legislature and its staff. The catch: that section of the building is not open to the public and security refuses to give directions.
I called DMV Spokesman Michael Marando this morning to confirm this. He said this is somewhat misleading as the office never was open on Saturday (which makes sense. What pol is going to work on Saturday?). But still, they need their own office?
It is beyond time to remove all perks to elected officials and the bureaucrats. They are the highest paid and have only produced a balanced budget four times in the last 20 years! We should never have gone to a full time legislature for the system of a part time legislature worked very well, only producing laws that actually were needed and a budget on time!