[theDentist]

Because every time a proposal of any sort to re-issue a card to the populace comes up, people scream for a variety of reasons from the ACLU’s “invasion of privacy” protests to End-Of-the-Worlder’s “the mark of the Beast” proclamations.

[GailA]

Guess they must be driving without DL’s then..as it is the same thing we need in a SS card.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"every time a proposal of any sort to re-issue a card to the populace comes up, people scream for a variety of reasons from the ACLU’s “invasion of privacy” protests to End-Of-the-Worlder’s “the mark of the Beast” proclamations."

Looks like this time they will attempt to bring about the end of our society, to accomplish just this thing.

1.Suddenly tens of millions of new "immigrant" citizens need documentation.
2.New national ID card is issued. Undocumented problems solved.
3.New national ID card fraud/failure causes unparralelled financial collapse. (Whoda thunkit)
4.Bring out the RFID chips. A ruined and frightened people are more easily "convinced"!

The only solution is to vote the incumbs outta office! Every last stinkin one of em! NO Rs No Ds!

[SuziQ]

See I'd gone one further. I'd require anyone entering the country to have a microchip encoded visa, and Green Card, that they'd have to keep with them all them time. Heck, make it trackable, so that folks can't get 'lost' and fade away into the populace. If the police encounter someone who can't produce proof of citizenship or one of the chip encoded cards, he or she is jailed until one can be produced or they're deported.

Now that would really drive the ACLU nuts.