Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"

After Joe Wurzelbacher of Ohio gained fame as "Joe the Plumber" in the course of the current presidential campaign, it seems that he's drawn more than idle curiosity from people with access to what should probably be confidential information. An anonymous reader writes with a story from The Columbus Dispatch that "government insiders accessed Joe the Plumber's records soon after the McCain-Obama debate. 'Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate. Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.' Welcome to 1984."

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Re:How do you think it should work then?

[Locke2005]

We're subsidizing the oil companies by sending thousands of American soldiers to fight in Iraq to guarantee them access to cheap foreign oil, not to mention the hundreds of billions of dollars we're spending. Seeing as how the oil companies are currently experiencing record profits, don't you think it only fair that they help out with some of the monetary expenses? To be completely fair, the oil companies should recruit their own armies and put their own executives on the front line, but that's not going to happen...