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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:03 AM
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Remember when John Fund claimed that passports proved that privatising government services
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10876269

is the solution to all our problems. Turns out he was lying, who knew. Can they be honest about anything? Passport problems solved my ass.

"I'm taking, hopefully, a group of 29 kids to Germany on Tuesday," Schott said, "and I put my passport in for renewal in March.

"And I found out from my congressman yesterday that they haven't even opened my application; the envelope hasn't even been opened."

Schott says she left Cincinnati at 5 a.m. Friday. After a five-hour drive, she had already been waiting in line a couple of hours when we spoke.

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Listen at the link for an even worse case.

Again, can't these people be honest about anything at anytime?
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:13 AM
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1. These Goons Can't Get Anything Right...
So to protect us from them Canadian and Mexican and Trinidadian terrorists we needed to upend an already under-staffed patronage operation that, once again, proves how inept Repugnican are at doing anything. People will put up with corruption as long as the "trains run on time", but the ineptness of this regime...thanks to all its greed and outsourcing...reaches new lows.

Now, I'm sure if you shoot through a nice political contribution or your name is on an RNC donor's list, that passport was delivered weeks or months ago.

Maybe, if these asshats are so screwed up with a simple procedure as processing passports, they aren't capable of doing much with all the mined data and telephone records.
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:17 AM
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2. What we are finding out is
that if you pay their extortion, you can get your passport quickly. Ante up an extra 50 bucks and viola, you have your passport.:mad:
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:28 AM
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3. actually the expedited passports are also behind
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-09-07 07:52 AM
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4. At least Maher called him on the lie. nt
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