I can't express the awesomeness of this.

awesome, yes, but the lithuanian national health service didn't make me wait in line or fill out crappy forms, whereas my privatised swedish bank does.

so don't go crazy with your freemarket propaganda in this thread.

The DMV and post office are pretty decently ran around here. They used to be a nightmare, but they came around and now it's a breeze. Some things are done right.. but then I think Air Lingus.

You must be in a town of 100,000 people. Try a city will 11 million people and she how the fucking DMV is run now.

That is great that there are 2 institutions that aren't even in the United states, that don't run that way. Doesn't make a difference. Comparing apples and prunes.
Last I checked, there were 8 million people in the great country of sweden.
Cram 11 million people into an area 1/10000th the size of sweden, and see what the lines look like then.

Hm, so if the mail carrier takes a note from my hand in San Francisco, and puts it in the my mom's hand in New Jersey two days later for $0.42, that's considered ... a bad thing?

God forbid, we should have banks that, instead of stealing the money or folding it into a "Collateralized Debt Obligation," actually do what they're fucking supposed to.

I live in a metro area of about 2.1 million people, and the DMV has always been pretty painless for me.

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Okay, this just pisses me off. the free market alternative is to have citi bank (and the rest of the financial industry) simply collapse into dust. then you wouldn't have any lines to bitch about. or any savings.

>> ^hawkinson:
Okay, this just pisses me off. the free market alternative is to have citi bank (and the rest of the financial industry) simply collapse into dust. then you wouldn't have any lines to bitch about. or any savings.


Yeah, I think that was kinda "glossed" over (lol).

Nationalised might end up being slower (debateable), but their customers would wait a lot longer if it were shut down... X D

>> ^hawkinson:
Okay, this just pisses me off. the free market alternative is to have citi bank (and the rest of the financial industry) simply collapse into dust. then you wouldn't have any lines to bitch about. or any savings.


but watching those cunts "collapse into dust" with the rest of us would be amusing. I don't have any savings so I would be particularly entertained by that spectacle. Then we can all go mano a mano in the streets, as nature intended.