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To me it's all about gov't. rushing in with all these new solutions to problems they've helped to create in the first place. The solutions always tend to center around more loss of privacy, increased taxes or fees, another new bureaucracy that'll bloat up in short order, etc.

Agreed. Too many people in the government don't (or won't) look at the impact on us, the common folks. It's what is most convenient for them (and at times it seems like it helps them to try and justify any kind of power grabs that are going on, and there are some going on). It's not hard to see why the tinfoil crowd is worried (and I find myself agreeing with them a lot more than I used to).

I wouldn't take it to the extreme that some people have - that the government would love for another 9/11, to help make a bigger powergrab, but liberals, they do love the power, and a lot of the PATRIOT Act and Homeland Security stuff was drawn up under Clinton....

Soon, right on cue the cries will appear for a mandatory national ID for everyone and 'voila' Congress already has the Real ID Act already in place and due for implementation by mid-2008.

A lot of states will have implemented this by mid-2007/early 2008 - the feds have been leaning on them big time, threatening to cut of funding for this or that (yeah, I know, said funding is from taxpayer money, our money, and they get to decide whether our states get it back or not).

It's amazing how many people know nothing about the Real ID Act. Simply amazing. Even on FR.