[Spok]

Let me get this straight:
We let essentially everyone into our country; we give them visas, drivers' licenses, food stamps, medical care, educations, flight training and Social Security. Even after they fly jets into skyscrapers, we renew their right to stay here legally. But this will all end with national id cards? I must be missing something.

[yatros from flatwater]

I have every confidence that the REAL ID program will be as effective in preventing the plague of false ID's as:
the War to End all Wars,
as effective as the War on Poverty,
as effective as the War on Cancer,
as effective as the War on Drugs
and as effective as all other government programs in history...
effective in expanding the size and scope of government