US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card

According to Wired (and no big surprise, considering the practicalities of implementing massive changes in medical finance), US lawmakers "are proposing a national identification card, a 'fraud-proof' Social Security card required for lawful employment in the United States. The proposal comes as the Department of Homeland Security is moving toward nationalizing driver licenses."

Comments

Re:And what's the problem here?

[rubycodez]

We're afraid of our continuing slide into a police state, and of giving the idiots who mismanage our country the further power to deny us employment or driving at a whim or for clerical error. That driver's license permission you speak of is at the state level, and moreover it works to get on a plane.

Look at how the federal government has already mismanaged and abused things with the No-Fly list, the stupidity of relying on a mere name which dozens or hundreds or thousands of other people have to determine if someone can fly or if they'll be hassled for hours at an airport. Enough already, they can't function in a competent manner with what they have, why give them even more ways to screw with our lives.

And by the way, we were NOT given the "right to health care". Something that is taken by threat of force from one person to give to another is never a "right". If it costs me money for someone else to have it is not a right.

The truth is that plenty of U.S. slashdotters who championed the success of moderate amounts of socialism in California and of healthcare and other social services in Europe are conveniently neglecting the reality that California is bankrupt and that all of the European countries are either bankrupt or soon to be.

Re:Still think Obamacare is a good idea?

[Totenglocke]

The majority of the citizens were against the bill (especially easy to see when enough people in 38 states are pissed off about it that the states are planning on suing the federal government). Even large numbers of people who voted for the Democrats who forced this bill on the American people didn't support it. So I ask, what was democratic about this bill? The will of the people was not represented. The will of a group of politicians was supported.