[Wolfhound777]

1) We already have Social Security Cards
2) We already have Birth certificates
3) WE already have Driver's licenses

True, but we don't have this:

"..."machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag. The Department of Homeland Security would be charged with drafting the details of the regulation."

This makes it totally different and a bad idea. HLS can't find the sleeper cells, can't or won't shut down the borders, and can't stop worrying about offending CAIR but they are spot on when it comes to tracking ordinary american citizens. HLS will eventually become like the KGB.

[LauraleeBraswell]

If we had a national ID CARD for voting, we'd pick up another 5 SENATE SEATS and a governorship in Washington! but to your point, I would have agreed with you 20 years ago.

[endthematrix]

"HLS will eventually become like the KGB. "

I think when the Fed starts pushing the Northern Command into police and security functions at a local level then America's eyes may start to widen. When we get hit again, all types of written contingencies will be implemented. All the stuff that would not pass a sensible Congress. When you think transportation security, do you think machine gun federal troops checking National ID at a bus stop in Nowhere, USA? Just a matter of time.