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THIS IS AN ACTUAL  author unknown LETTER TO GOVERNMENT ( But please forgive its few graffic words in odrer to explain ..)


ACTUAL PASSPORT APPLICATION
> LETTER  ..

  (  I feel myself weve all been here once or twice lol )




> Dear Mrs.
> Ms. or Sir:

> I'm in
> the process of renewing my passport and still cannot believe
> this.
> > How is it > that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and
> knows that I bought a cable TV from them in 1987 (22 years
> ago), and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me
> where I was born and on what date.
> > For > Christ's sake, do you guys do this by hand? Ever heard
> of computers?
> > My birth
> date you have in my social security file.
> > It's on > EVERY income tax form I've filed for the past 30 years.
> > It's on > my Medicare health insurance card and my driver's
> license,
> > It's on
> the last eight damn passports I've had,
> > It's on > every stupid customs declaration form I've had to fill
> out before being allowed off the plane for the
>  last 30 years.
> > And > it's on all those census forms that we have to do at
> election times.
> > Would > somebody please take note, once and for all, that my
> mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is
> Robert and I'm reasonably confident that neither name is
> likely to change between now and when I die.
> > Between you > an' me, I've had enough of this bureaucratic
> bull...t!
> > You send
> the application to my house, then you ask me for my

> f______address.

> What is
> going on?

> You must > have a gang of bureaucratic Neanderthal morons working
> there!

> Look at my
> damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden?

> And > "No," I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat,
> for sh..t sakes.

> I just want to go and park my ass on a
> sandy beach.

> And would
> someone please tell me, why would you give a damn whether I
> plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days?

> If I ever
> got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat,

> believe you
> me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

> Well, I > have to go now because I have to go to the other end of the
> city and get another f______copy of my birth certificate -
> to the tune of >  $100.

> Would it be > so difficult to have all the services in the same area so I

> could get a > new passport the same day?

> Nooooo, > that would require planning and organization. And it would
> be too logical for the f_______ government.

> You'd  > rather have us running all over the place like chickens with
> our heads cut off.

> Then, we > have >  to find some ass..le to confirm that it's really me on
> the damn picture - you know, the one where we're not
> allowed to smile.

> Hey, you > know why we can't smile?

> We're > totally pis..ed off!

> Signed

> An
> Irate Citizen.
> > 
> P.S.
> Remember what I wrote about getting someone to confirm that
> the picture is me?

> Well, my family has > been in the United States of America since 1776.

> I
> have served in the military for something over 35 years and
> have had security clearances up the yingyang.

> However, I have to get > someone important to verify who I am - you know, someone
> like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA!

> And
> you ass..les
>  want to run our health care system?????







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