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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a load of BS.  if you can afford a car you can afford a license.  People are getting away with it because they can.  I didn’t own a car until my forties.  You can bus, train, Uber, bike, walk, yes even in the suburbs.  She is completely nuts and this mentality is ruining the dmv.  Everyone has to follow the same rules or anyone with means is going to get out of dodge asap. [/quote]

This is the thing that gets me. I've spent half of my adult life living without a car, because I could not afford one. I do agree there needs to be more effort to ensure there is good public transportation, and in MoCo, I think it's important to plug these transportation gaps where people may have trouble reaching certain jobs without a car because public transit only gets them half or three-quarters of the way there.

But driving a car is a privilege, not a right, and if you have managed to get ahold of a car somehow, then you should have the resources and skill to go fill out some paperwork, pay a fee, and take a test. If you don't have those resources and skills, there are actually a lot of community programs designed to help you get them. The answer is not driving unlicensed and in such a manner that you wind up harming others or getting pulled over.

Do people like Mink understand that this BS is actually NOT compassionate? Compassion would be holding people accountable for dangerous behavior, directing them towards existing services that can help them, and also giving a damn about the people endangered by the behavior. Compassion is not just shrugging you're shoulders and saying "oh well, they can't help it."[/quote]

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