National Identity Card? In The USA? Just Three Years Away to a National Database (my title)
CNET/News.com ^ | 6 May 2005 | Declan McCullagh



Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver's license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards.

The Real ID Act hands the Department of Homeland Security the power to set these standards and determine whether state drivers' licenses and other ID cards pass muster. Only ID cards approved by Homeland Security can be accepted "for any official purpose" by the feds.

In exchange for federal cash, states must agree to link up their databases. Specifically, the Real ID Act says it hopes to "provide electronic access by a state to information contained in the motor vehicle databases of all other states."

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What would this card do that the current driver licence and state identity card won't do?

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We also already have a national ID card - it's called a Social Security Card.

The problem with those you can thank the Liberals for.....they have been fighting for the Illegals to get legal identity cards and legal drivers licesnses making them look like upstanding legal residents , which of course they are not.

Enough states are insisting on this they are forcing the government to do the very thing that gets the liberals lace panties ina bunch....a national ID card.

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I was born and raised in California, lived my whole life here, mostly. When I was going through drivers education while in high school I was taught that driving was a privilege. The one thing I dont understand about this whole giving illegals drivers licenses is, how is it that driving is a privilege for me but a right for illegal aliens?

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We are supposed to be one nation consisting of independently sovereign states. Unfortunately, this has apparently all but been lost.

man, you're getting confused my friend.. it's the repos, the repos..

ans SS card is a national card especially that almost everything revolves around the SS#

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That concept disintegrated in 1865.

Another f^*king politicans brilliant idea. Re-inventing the wheel to keep his/their seats in the Congress.

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It's a right, not a privledge. Don't believe the hype.

National Identity Card,Big Brother encircling us with his endless tentacles,Sig Heil everyone..............

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How is it different from a drivers licence and SS card? In fact, I wouldn't mind it if it were to replace the DL. People make all kind of quips about it but no one has mentioned what the problem is, in real life. With identity theft and terrorism what they are now, I really don't have a problem with a good reliable ID that is harder to forge. Hell, I got dinged on my credit report years ago for not paying for stuff on a charge card. Reason I didn't pay was that I didn't even know that store existed nor did I even know what they were selling. I have gotten things on my credit report that I don't recognize. And yes, a credit report is important to me because it is what the bank uses to see if they need to loan me money and it is what I use to see if I will extend a customer any credit.

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99 E300 Turbodiesel
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06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

I wonder if this will make my carry permit legal in all states ?

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Does that mean we'll be getting a different ID card for each arm of the local and federal government?

So this one will be for the Office of Homeland Security.
My drivers license will be for my Local DMV, US territories and Canada.
My Social Security will be for everything else and taxes.
My passport I guess will be for foreign governments.
If you are a legal immigrant in this country you'll need that Green Card too.

Man i'm going to need one of those wallets with 18 slots

I am all for it....so NOW with they kick the damned illegals out of the country!

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Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche