So, I went to the DMV

[Ginger]

To tag & title my BMW. I actually had a great experience... except for the LaRouch'ies outside. I wrote and email to Rex and RJ to tell them about it... here it is, enjoy:

I went to the DMV to tag & title the BMW. And you know what? Most
painless DMV visit in recent memory.

...except for one thing. The LaRouchies had a table set up out from of
the office to try and get people to sign a petition. The peititon was
to get action taken to stop forclosures. One of the ladies pounced on
me and I politely said "you know, not to be rude, but you're probably
not going to win my support."

"Why?" she said.

"Because I'm a Chicago School economist."

"And where do you work, what do you do?" She asked.

"I'm an accountant."

"Where - a big government organization?"

"No, a big credit union."

"And what do you think that means, Chicago school economics?" I think
she said this because she had no idea, herself.

"I'm hands off."

And there was some unintelligble banter from her mouth about Adam
Smith [sidebar: I think it's really depressing that the average
American only knows enough economics to know that a) Supply and Demand
exists and b) Adam Smith was a man]. She ended with "laissez faire"
and I decided that her incredibly dumbed-down understanding was good
enough. I said:

"yes."

She handed me a paper and said "well, at least read this." I took the
paper, commented on how it would give me something to do in the DMV
and took a step to leave.But then she said something that I still
can't get over. In retrospect I would have enjoyed stopping and giving
her an education, but at the time getting back to work as more
important. She said "so, Adam Smith, you know we fought the revolution
against that."

I cringed.

"No, I don't think you're right."

"Yes I am!" and she started in, in her protesting voice (the one they
adopt when they want everybody to hear) about personal property rights
trumping the laws that allowed these evil, evil foreclosures to happen
in something that didn't use any kind of discnernable sentance
structure.

I said "no, you're incorrect." I turned my back and walked away; even
as the door was shutting behind me I could hear her yelling at my
back.

On one level this whole interaction was really amusing... how could
people, theoretically, educated political activists, really be this
dumb? But on the same token, that's really depressing