Way to Go DMV

Of course the brake lights don't work. Come back on the third Friday 13th next millennium!
My permit to drive, issued in Colorado, is good for three years. I just need anyone 21 or older with me. Hair color and gender not so important. My appointment on Tuesday was changed to Monday on Tuesday. I know. You're trying to read too much into this but it's the truth. It really started 3 years ago on my birthday when the Department of revenue asked for an extra $95 from me because they said I was late on my insurance by one day in 1877 and I don't remember much back that far but I gave them the $95 anyway and it took until August of this year to get it straightened out. I took the written test, got in line for a drive test and they said my insurance was not specifically for the car I was driving. It's good for "ANYTHING I drive! I got a print out for my broker in ten minutes. But they said it was too late and I needed to make another appointment for my driving skills test. The appointment was made for September 13th, a Friday of course. I showed up half an hour before and waited in line for an hour. When we went to the car I thought this is too easy. The tester took my insurance card and registration then checked out my lights. The brake lights didn't work! I said of course they don't. I can't have a license!
So I got another appointment for October 23rd at 2:00 PM. I called on Tuesday to confirm the date and time and I'm glad I did because she said it was correct and I got everything together again and pulled in half an hour early. Took it all to head of the local department behind the Big Bad Counter and the big bad whatever she was said I missed my appointment and said there was  no way I made an appointment with them. I pulled up my cell phone, hit the redial and her phone rang! She checked again and said I was scheduled to test on Tuesday the 22nd. What was really funny to me was no one was waiting in line. In fact the place was empty. But she heard the phone ring and knew there was a mistake of some kind so she checked again for my name and found it. Finally, I was getting somewhere. Somebody took my name off the list for the 23rd and changed it to the 22nd. I was a day late. They are booked up through December 1st now.
I honestly don't let this bother anymore. I tell my proteges it's their choice - they can be right or they can be happy. Sometimes you can even be both. But not if your brake lights don't work. By the way, there was nothing wrong with my brake lights. This all took place the way it did because my acceptance has taken a couple of body blows the last month or two. But just like the mania of the Brady Bill of 1994, too many chiefs have no idea what the Indians want or even need. This was all taken care of in 1996 and I still have no idea how to purge false accusations let alone prosecutions on the same basis.
But I have a great idea! Everybody, stop renewing your licenses (all licenses) and don't ever send the department of grand theft another nickel. How long can we allow out of control spending by our government to demand more from us. And lastly, where do your taxes go? If you can find a little of it would you please give me the phone number or address? I can't seem to find either.

Department of Uneducation

Or At Wit's End

Help! This picture is called Land's End. It was taken from the old lodge atop Grand Mesa in western Colorado. That is the Grand Valley below with the Bookcliffs trailing off the the west into Utah and the Colorado River crossing the valley into eastern Utah just south of Interstate 70.

So what does any of this have to do with the United States Department of Uneducation? I am so glad you asked because I am going to do more than tell you. I am going to show you how the cow ate the cabbage.


I do not consider myself a well-educated-man but some may say differently. There is always a lame-brained bureaucrat sitting at Starbucks dreaming up other names for me and my ilk. It is to that bureaucrat I wish to raise my voice and opinion.


To Whom it May Concern at:
The Department of Education in Birmingham, Alabama , Atlanta, Georgia and Greenville, Texas, U.S. Department of Education C/O Nelnet Guarantor Solutions, Aurora, Colorado, U.S. Department of Education Total and; Permanent Disability Server Denver, Colorado, Nelnet Inc. Lincoln, Nebraska, College Assist Disability Review Committee, Denver, Colorado, Nelnet Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana, Nelnet Inc. Omaha, Nebraska, College Access Network, Denver, Colorado, Debt Management  National Payment Center Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Department of Education ACT Bakersfield, California, The Internal Revenue Service Ogden, Utah, Dallas, Texas, Phoenix, Arizona, and The Department of The Treasury (or Usury as indicated in the New Testament but I doubt any of you have read it down there at the FMS because you are too worried about getting all the codes correct for our absolutely necessary wasteful Federal Bureaucracy) in Alabama or in, on or around whatever state of disrepair you reside.
Please find enclosed a list of all correspondence from each of your separate and several agencies dating back to 1993 for the record of 3 (three) Stafford Loans and 1(one) Perkins Loan.

STAFFORD UNSUBSIDIZED $472 08/12/1994   $0 $472    $0 STAFFORD SUBSIDIZED $1,750  08/12/1994   $875  $875    $318 STAFFORD SUBSIDIZED $2,500  11/04/1993   $2,500  $0   $732 FEDERAL PERKINS  $500  03/02/1993   $500  $0   $500 Total  STAFFORD UNSUBSIDIZED   $0 Total  STAFFORD SUBSIDIZED   $1,050 Total  FEDERAL PERKINS   $500 Total All Loans   $1,550

The Unsubsidized Loan was was paid in 1994.

The Perkins is being held hostage by The Department of Education for $32.33 for the which FMS removes $140.55 from my SSDI every month offsetting my HUD and raising my rent by that same amount plus I am paying off a $2000 loan from my credit union to reimburse HUD for that same amount for the 2 (two) years prior which FMS removed those funds to offset the 2 (two) Stafford Loans as shown above for the which I only received the first disbursement of $1250 and the remainder was left at Mesa State College when I dropped out of school in the winter of 1994 at the beginning of my current physical disability.

The Perkins loan (I find out now from Debt Management) has $32.33 remaining to be paid. When I contacted College Assist last winter, after my last hospital stay, I was told where and how to find and file a Discharge Application for Total and Permanent Disability. In late November I received College Assist's Conditional Approval, dated 11/22/11 on the FFEL and Perkins loans. It took four mailings to finally report the physicians certification but Nelnet returned my original with a letter telling me they will be assisting The Department of Education in reviewing my disabling condition.

Attached to the back of my returned discharge application is a Nelnet memo dated 03/04/11 for the Guarantor to copy, sign and fax to the Specialty Claims Department of Nelnet. The Account # is xxxxxxxxxx and the document is the default Total and Permanent Disability claim originally filed on 7/24/08.

I called Nelnet Guarantors first to ask what I needed to do and they said it would take time to process the discharge but after another call found out that Debt Management will not accept the discharge application because they have to use their own forms and will have to get my doctor to submit another report. When I told them I already have the completed forms they said again they would not accept them because they are different. I was told it could take 4-6 weeks for the forms to be mailed. Tuesday last I called back and talked to a person named Dana who said the same thing. Her main comment was, however, rather disturbing to my senses. She said they could do nothing until I either paid off the loan or reapplied through them to discharge the loan for permanent and total disability. I asked again what it was going to take to straighten out this whole mess and she gave the best answer I have heard so far in my short 60 years on this earth. Why don't you just pay the $32.33, she asked!

Is there anyone else on this planet who might assist me for a second with the stupidest question I will ever ask in my lifetime? How long is the Department of the Treasury going to keep taking $140.55 each month to pay off that $32.33? Hey! Come on man, how long? I have, sitting in my formerly nicotine stained fingers right now, receipts totaling over $8,900 that has been confiscated by the Department of Education (what an oxymoron) since 1996 up to 12/03/11! Want me to put pictures of them here? And that doesn't count my State and Federal tax refunds!

Someone please tell me where it is!

 

I finally got an address to mail the payment to and figured I've waited almost 15 years, what difference is another month going to make? Maybe the head honcho down there in Alabama or Georgia or Washington D.C. or wherever, has had a long enough vacation on my dime to come back in and quit making me subsidize this broken bureaucracy with my Social Security. My doctors and I would appreciate it very much.Social Security only took three years to assess the only job I could do even part time is a parking lot attendant. We don't have much call for them at Land's End.

So they mailed me the forms which I received Monday. They are the same forms! I think I'll wait until 2012 and send them the $32.33. Either that or walk off Land's End.