Posted on 02/22/2025 6:51:10 AM PST by madison10
My opinion is in the first post.
Who is Mark Walberg?
If drivers’ licenses and other government issued ID were required to have a special designation to denote citizenship status, that would settle the problem cheaply and it would be something that every adult has or can get at no cost to themselves. If that were required the complaint that Democrat constituencies are too mentally deficient to know how to obtain such ID would have Democrat organizations ostentatiously taking the designated dullards to obtain such.
This is a bit of a word salad. It makes, on the whole, more sense than the Camel’s speeches but there are too many words creative order and the sense that it might make is obscured.
Add another 100 bucks and get a paper passport as a companion piece.
A small part of the total cost.
I just got a renewed passport. It cost over $400 and took over a month to arrive. That total included several extra "fees" extracted during the required in-person interview at a state office. It took a month to get the scheduled interview.
For an extra $99, I could have also purchased a passport card. I did not bother. But you cannot get the passport card without getting the passport.
Anyway, the passport wasn't cheap, and it was not convenient or quick to get one.
I believe my renewal was $200 for paper and wallet card.
Thanks for the info!
“”Finally on the 44th post, we have someone identify what state we are talking about.”
I agree...Why was it so difficult to properly name the subject at the outset? THINK before or while posting!!!!
Sure would help. Someone answered my post saying he was already identified BUT failed to say - be prepared to go through 40+ posts before you get to it..OR even better - the number of the post that FINALLY revealed the identity!!! We all come to FR for guessing games, don’t we?
My mistake on the spelling. Mark Wahlberg is an actor. His brother also.
Mark Wahlberg - a fine actor certainly better known here than an obscure congressman from MI; also an occasional spokesperson for Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Now we're getting somewhere. The Founders and early generations of leaders put many restrictions on voting, to include poll taxes, literacy tests, church membership, land ownership, etc.. Was it because they were patriarchal bigots, or was it because they recognized some fundamental truths that have been lost over time?
I don't know why the "everybody must vote" mantra ever took hold, but a successful republic demands that voters must be motivated, well-informed citizens in order to vote. Things like motor voter bills that automatically register people when they get a drivers license, canvassing blighted neighborhoods with walking around money and free cigarettes; trolling nursing homes to register people who are barely sentinent; voting by mail, ad nauseum, are ruinous to a healthy republic.
It is an INCOME TAX not a redistributive welfare system. The SSDI is probably more akin to a broad base income tax which is legally called an insurance. II fully support a flat tax on ALL income. The sticking point might be capital gains. For that I recommend a capital gain tax lower than the flat rate for those who buy a capital asset like IPO. Resellers of stock acquired from a non original owner are not selling capital assets. I abhor the IRS “refunding” more than one pays in.
My passport had been expired for a few years, so the fees were higher than for a renewal action. They were still lower than for a first-time passport.
There were additional fees charged to use a state office for the required in-person interview. I paid them because the Post Office around here no longer handles such things, nor do any other Federal offices in this State.
Of course, they rejected my passport photo, even though it was taken at by photography studio that "guaranteed" it would be in correct format. They had a clerk in the state office take a new photo, for an additional fee.
The required in-person interview was the worst part of the process. It was 15 minutes and included a six-page form which had to be filled out in the presence of the interviewer, with no errors and no erasures or corrections permitted.
There were at least four entries where a "First Name, Last Name" entry was required, except that two of them were "Last Name, First Name" format. There were numerous other duplications and inconsistencies in the form which seemed designed to induce errors. I made plenty of them.
If you made any errors, you had to start over with a new form. I finally got it on my fourth try, and I was right at the time limit for the interview. Strictly enforced, that time limit, and I had burned up too much of that time getting a new passport photo. Just barely made it.
The smirking clerk mentioned to me that about 10% of her subjects fail to complete the form within the time limit and are required to schedule a new interview at a much later date.
Registering to vote was so much easier.
Do people taking social security ( which they paid into) shouldn’t vote???
If beyond their contributions, correct.
Congressman Tim Walberg (R)
Congressman Tim Walberg | (.gov)
http://walberg.house.gov
Tim Walberg is currently serving his eighth term in Congress as the representative of southern Michigan.
Why should passports cost $200.00? They should be FREE! and NOT a requirement for voting!
The passport book is almost $200, and a card can be obtained for $35 if the website I looked at is correct. I guess either would do. His attitude was so arrogant.
People should not have to pay to vote, regardless if price. That is what he is saying.
They shouldn’t have to own property either
Ok. Thanks.
I do not think he knows what he totally knows what he is talking about.
A lot of that in D.C. a trade mark.
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