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India To Issue Over a Billion Biometric ID Cards
angrytuna writes "The Unique Identification Authority is a new state department in India charged with assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and biometric ID card. The program is designed to alleviate problems with the 20 current types of proof of identity currently available. These problems range from difficulties for the very poor in obtaining state handouts, corruption, illegal immigration, and terrorism issues. Issuing the cards may be difficult, however, as less than 7% of the population is registered for income tax, and voter lists are thought to be inaccurate, partly due to corruption. The government has said the first cards will be issued in 18 months."
They have problems with people trying to get INTO India? I thought everyone wanted to get out!
a new state department in India charged with assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and biometric ID card.
OK, 1 billion should just about cover all the Indians living in the UK, Canada and the US, but what about all the rest?
PS: It's a joke. I for one welcome our corner store/curry house operating Indian overlords. Thank you come again!
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...Spending billions of dollars on ID cards when a huge percentage of your population is starving to death in the streets -- nice to see that your priorities are in order
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Leaving aside the technicalities of the project for a moment, these are strange priorities. India is not the only country to have lots of starving people and homeless, but instead of feeding them or building homes, they are to piss billions of Dollars giving them ID cards for the New World Order to track them.
Sick!
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If you don't win an election, you LOSE the election. Jerry Ford never won a national election.
And I agree about the "all losers", Bush won twice and the whole country (maybe the whole world) lost.
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