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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."
The awesome part about this is that it ought to cause the Tea Party types to blow a gasket. On one hand, you have the federal government making ID's that will make it tougher for undocumented aliens to get work, so finally all of those high-flight jobs mowing lawns and manning the grill at fast food restaurants will be safe for Real Americans(tm). On the other hand, you have the federal government making ID's that will allow them to do... Well, whatever wacky-ass conspiricy stuff the federal government supposedly does with ID's -- I'll have to wait for Glenn Beck to tell me exactly why it'll be such a problem, but I'm sure it will be. In reality, however, the big losers in any sort of forgery-proof national ID situation are going to tomorrow's 19 year-olds who won't be able to get into the bar with their "Hawaii driver's license" anymore. So really, this program only hurts the children.
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It's good we're finally going to get a proper social security card that is only used for the purpose of social security, and not as a general identification number that's treated as secret yet widely shared. No more will a social security card be used for other purposes.
It depends on what they mean. If you need ID to open a bank account then fair enough. If you need ID to walk down the street or breathe the air then no thanks.
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I'll be glad when Obama is finally inaugurated!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Therefore I refuse to hear it.
(switches to MSNBC). Ahh yes. They are telling me that this National ID card is simply like a drivers' license, therefore it's a-okay. Nothing dangerous about a drivers license. (sigh). I love the calming lies of MSNBC flickering on my screen. It's just like when mom told me locking the windows would keep me safe from bad people, and they couldn't possibly get it.
Haaa-uummmmmm.
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Marvin: Ghastly, isn't it? All the channels have been programmed to have a cheery and sunny disposition, even when reporting bad news.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
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What?!?! We have the highest per capita healthcare costs in the world!. Yes, higher than Germany, UK, Canada, and all the other "socialist" European countries.
Shut up with your 'facts'! You can use facts to prove anything even remotely true!
Letting poor people get medical treatment is going to bankrupt Germany, that's all there is to it. It's not about how much money they spend on health care, it's about how much I hate socialism!
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Wrong. Here in Arizona, if someone enters my house, I can shoot him dead on sight.
Careful, it doesn't work if you invite them in.
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I can't believe those intrusive, brain-dead republicans, led by Karl Rove and his minions want to roll out a national ID card, just another intrusion into our privacy, things will be so different when Obama gets in office, that's for sure!
Wait, what?
Oh crap... Never mind.
Ken
Ha, just like vampires.
Most federal programs run SO smooth its no wonder that they would like to take some of the burden off the states as to give us all the sense of safety a national ID would give you and to have it all at the federal level? Bonus!
Nice to see we have many on here ready to curl up in a ball and take whatever beatings the federal government hands out like they were back in high school taking beatings from a bully. Acceptance of your new evil overloads indeed.
Lets be real here, a license doesn't allow you to drive- if ti did you'd have to swipe it to start a car.
SHIT! Don't go putting ideas into their heads!