Stole your ...I don’t trust the government for anything ever, it makes a good tag line because sadly it is too true.
If they can't get the felons & rapists etc into the database since it so backed up how do they plan to get babies DNA into one? I would think that felons etc would be of more importance then collecting the babies DNA but then this is the govt we're talking about. Can't finish one thing before they have another plan. Shaking my head again & thinking how much I hate the morons in the WH.
I’d start with felons too. But too many people haven’t been convicted of felonies, and go around repeating crimes easily because nobody knows who they really are.
Illegals, felons, not-yet-convicted felons (including the large category of credit theft by identity theft), vote fraudsters, insurance fraudsters, welfare/food-stamp fraudsters — there’s a very long list of people getting away with things that do serious damage to our society and economy because there’s no way to reliably identify them. I’m a big fan of personal responsibility, but it can’t be required on a large scale until we can readily ascertain who a person is.
Example: There’s a big problem in nursing homes with low level staff abusing patients. Many of these people have been fired from other jobs, or have warrants out for their arrest, or criminal convictions for violent and/or sexual crimes, etc. But they just use a different identity (sometimes stolen from a previous co-worker, so they can even get a good reference) to get another job that gives them access to vulnerable people. Then they beat, rape, steal pain-killing drugs, etc.
Also, whenever a biometric ID system comes into being (and I’m quite sure it’s a matter of “when”, not “if”), I think it’s very important to require duplicate databases at the federal, state, and county levels. The federal government can’t be trusted, and there needs to be a mechanism for challenging the validity of its data.