Posted on 09/17/2023 9:50:06 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: One of the things that I’ve tried to do in this campaign is to identify innovative, common sense solutions to some of these apparently intractable problems that keep the political parties at each other’s throats. So tonight I want to describe a win-win win policy that could solve two of the principal issues that are keeping the political parties apart. One of those issues is the wave of illegal immigration that is currently coming across the border. The other issue has to do with the integrity of our electoral process and the guarantee that every American should have a right to vote. So what could be a solution that would solve both of those problems?
The answer to that question is to make passport cards free. A passport card is a picture identification that is issued by the federal government that can be used as a substitute for a passport. It’s an accredited federal ID. They are issued by every one of the 33,000 federal post offices in our country. Almost every American has a post office within easy driving or walking distance of their homes.
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In fact, this proposal removes the incentives and nullifies the arguments of those people who’ve been urging universal mandatory IDs or vaccine passports. Rather, we just make passport cards available to every American who can’t afford them, and we assist them in obtaining the necessary paperwork. No one in this country needs to be a second class citizen. And then there are the two other benefits to this plan. Voter ID laws will no longer be unfair to people who cannot afford or obtain an ID.
That’s why it will please liberals. My friends, the civil rights leaders andrew Young, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King II are all supporting this proposal. Conservatives will be happy because this proposal goes a long way in fixing our broken electoral system, and everyone will have to prove their identity before they vote. The second benefit is that we can now make employers accountable for hiring people illegally. That alone will stem the flood of illegal immigration into this country.Currently, those passports cost $65. And for many Americans, and especially poor Americans, that price tag puts passport cards out of reach. Making passport cards free will solve another important problem. And that problem is that millions of Americans today are living as second class citizens because they do not have a government issued photo ID. Without a passport or driver’s license, you can’t open a bank account, you can’t board an airplane, you can’t check into a hotel, and you can’t visit your child at school.
If you can’t open a bank account, you cash your salary check. At a check cashing operation that could take as much as 10% of the value of that check. Shouldn’t we all be concerned that the difficulty in accessing a government issued photo ID has left millions of Americans at the mercy of check cashers and payday lenders an $11 billion industry? In the interest of pure fairness, we need to make sure that every American can obtain an ID. And I’m not talking about a new form of universal or mandatory identification.
In fact, this proposal removes the incentives and nullifies the arguments of those people who’ve been urging universal mandatory IDs or vaccine passports. Rather, we just make passport cards available to every American who can’t afford them, and we assist them in obtaining the necessary paperwork. No one in this country needs to be a second class citizen. And then there are the two other benefits to this plan. Voter ID laws will no longer be unfair to people who cannot afford or obtain an ID.
That’s why it will please liberals. My friends, the civil rights leaders andrew Young, Al Sharpton, and Martin Luther King II are all supporting this proposal. Conservatives will be happy because this proposal goes a long way in fixing our broken electoral system, and everyone will have to prove their identity before they vote. The second benefit is that we can now make employers accountable for hiring people illegally. That alone will stem the flood of illegal immigration into this country.
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Using an internal passport as a form of national ID, is how it is done in much of Europe. RFK, Jr., offers a solution to a problem that should be bipartisan. Let's see how few politicians embrace a simple, common sense solution to election fraud.
Beware of “common sense” solutions promoted by politicians. There is ALWAYS a loss of freedom involved.
All well and good but this doesn’t stop the true high-volume frauds Democrats run with “dirty” voter registration rolls and mail-in balloting.
He really is a snake oil salesman. Yes, he brings up great points about the CDC and drug companies.
And if I were President today, I’d form some type of committee for him to run, with the full weight of the White House to investigate, prosecute and convict all the drug company and CDC scumbags that have been destroying this country. Without a doubt. But, have some legit oversight and transparency on what he was doing.
Anyone, with the proper documentation to prove who they are, can get a state ID. If they don’t have the money there are programs, damn near everywhere, where people can get one for free.
Hell, the homeless shelter that used to be on Pine St in Atlanta, used to get those guys state ID cards.
He says the right things to a certain segment of the population, about certain issues, at any given time. He’s more like Ramaswamy than anyone else.
At the end of the day, he’s a Democrat and a Kennedy and that should make folks cautious when he’s making these statements.
He knows the meaning of “identity” - who you are, not who you imagine yourself to be.
Sounds good. The important thing is that this would enable better verification of election results.
For people that are worried about being tracked, that ship has sailed. For instance, I was leery of getting an ez-pass device for my car because of the possibility of tracking. But, with auto license plate scanners and large interconnected databases it’s pretty much impossible to move around in a car without being tracked.
Every state I know offers ID cards for free. Anyone incapable of obtaining one is too incompetent to be voting anyway.
Passkontrol, bitte
I obtained a passport card when I was traveling globally as it has the same ID value as a passport, minus any visa stamps. It works GREAT for any federal ID requirements.
HOWEVER
There are a LOT of people who have never seen one, dont know that they exist, and have a hard time understanding that it is a federal ID.
I think The Left counts on a mix of specific techniques to boost the D vote. Among these are same-day registration, “motor-voter,” and various methods of ballot box stuffing, and mail-in vote abuse. The overall combo of all these and other techniques yields the 9nflated totals.
They’re counting on the massive southern border invasion to deliver big on-going votes.
I think the may have gauged this wrong, because lots of these people (pawns) have personal experience with totalitarian governments, and many are devout Catholics — who tend to be more socially conservative than American Catholics.
One can hope.
The invasion may pump the D vote count less than they plan.
JFK would just have a ‘political epiphany’ just like Teddy did on abortion to be competitive for Rat backing & office. Kennedys (as do all professional politicians!) are especially adaptable.
taxcontrol wrote: “I obtained a passport card when I was traveling globally as it has the same ID value as a passport, minus any visa stamps.”
Not really.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html
What is a Passport Card?
We began issuing U.S. passport cards in 2008 to meet the needs of U.S. citizens who travel from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and Caribbean countries by land or sea. The passport card cannot be used for international air travel and is a cheaper alternative to the passport book. Learn about the card on this page so you can decide if you want to apply for either the book or card, or both documents.
But your enemies in your party’s hierarchy despise this idea - they like the current system of ballots being an infinitely expandable resource that replaces difficult-to-manage voters.
You make a great point. My opinion, there aren’t any on the Left to find agreement with.
As I stated, RFK says what we all think and want to happen to the drug companies, the CDC, Fauci and his crew. Absolutely. 100%. And I would love to see him given the opportunity to destroy them.
But, at the same time he’s a Leftist when it comes to guns and some other issues.
Is it possible to agree with anyone, on everything, all the time? Nope. Hell, look at how long it takes to agree on where to go to lunch or dinner with a co-worker or spouse.
I get that.
My things withe ‘Democrats’....no matter what, no matter how ‘centrist’ your next door neighbor may seem when you’re talking to them on a Saturday afternoon, they’ll 100% vote for the Democrat. Even if that Democrat is a radical Leftist because...Republicans are bad/mean/want to take away rights/greedy/corrupt/you name it....Pres Trump sucks/he’s mean/he’s a racist/he’s a womanizer/he’s a misogynist/he’s whatever. Yet, 9 out of 10 times, they’ll never be able to give you an example of one of his policies that directly effected them. Unless of course they were one of the wealthy folks that weren’t allowed to write off their mortgage interest.
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