When Eagles Fly
I saw a smile of delight on a young lady's face this evening. It it very pretty, Papa, Cici told me. She was looking at all the pages in her new U.S. Passport. This is your ticket to the world, I told her. With this passport, you can travel to almost any place in the world. I know she loves China, but she was obviously happy to have her U.S. Passport. She and Ping loved looking at the eagles in the passport.
Now if she could just get a social security card.
It has been two months since we applied for her social security card. I sent an appropriately worded letter to the head of the local social security district office. I received a stock response by email today, whining about how they had to wait for USCIS to verify the Certificate of Citizenship. Nice try. That is the same Certificate of Citizenship that the Department of State used to issue and return her passport in just over 4 weeks.
Instead of the idiot trying to solve the problem, we were advised to return to the social security office and ask them to send an electronic inquiry to USCIS. What? You can't push that button without inconveniencing the taxpayers? You can't instruct your staff to do its job? I wish they would combine the social security administration and the postal service, fire all the people, ban them from ever working for the federal government again, then outsource all of their functions to private companies. At least that is the nicest option that I have thought about. 
Don't forget the patent office! If you send you fax in, and it's upside down, they will send you a fax back telling you to fax the documents back correctly. I guess someone needs to design a fax machine that automatically corrects the orientation and sell it to the patent office, since doing that by hand is too strenuous...
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