Wonder how long before this gets to us?

[Bear]

National ID Cards

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_identity_cards

Along with a one world currency with the "failing markets" everywhere so thjey can track the evil millionaires/billioaires.

The Bear Family

[piglett]

Bear
i see it as a possible 2 edged sword , if the united states could come up with a way to produce these in a such a way that they could not be tampered with or reproduced (the black market) then it mite be a good thing.
if you don't have an ID card then you can't work
if you don't have an ID card then NO WELFARE FOR YOU !!
so all or at least most of the people that are in this country Illegally mite go back to where they came from & start following the immigration rules just like the rest of us do.
There could also be some down sides to a card like this that many freedom loving Americans may not like
this is just my 2 cents worth
what do the rest of you think?

[jm21-2]

Hmm...I wonder if that's the problem. Is it really hard to check someone's social security number? I'd bet it's more the employer or welfare person looking the other way or ignoring the illegality. If you don't enforce the laws about employing illegals, who cares how great the ID card is? Just another waste of money. Fine the employers and you get funds for enforcement (less taxpayer money) and decreased hiring of illegals. No jobs and they'll have no reason to be here.

And a lot of the welfare is stuff that won't have an ID check, like public transportation and emergency medical treatment (public school too?). Just sounds like a placebo to appease the masses a bit while not pissing off the corporations and activist groups that are funding your campaign.

[Bear]

To be it looks like just another brick in the wall to a prison.  If all money on a card and you can work without the card, then their is no freedom anymore.  Rather than enforce existing laws they do this stuff claiming its out of control.

The Bear Family

[utopiacowboy]

Here is the deal. Big business likes illegals. They work long hours for little money. This is why nothing will ever be done, national identity card or not. If they could, I am sure the mega corporations would bring back slavery. As for the bailouts, to hell with all of them. Let them all go down the toilet. We need to fight the USSA.

[Bob_S]

The article was about an ID card for foreign nationals.  We already have something like that: a green card.  No big deal.  But it was a poorly written article because the writer then segues into something about national ID cards which is a different animal.  Since when are foreign resident IDs a slippery slope to a police state?  Well, it's an AP writer, so you gotta figure some illogical nonsense. 

But uc is right.  Businesses, big and small, like illegals and that's why nothing will be done to seriously effectively curb their invasion.  Even if The One gives blanket amnesty to all the current illegal residents, businesses will just fire the newly legalized ones they got now and import a new crop of peasants they can exploit. 

[Dave H]

But uc is right.  Businesses, big and small, like illegals and that's why nothing will be done to seriously effectively curb their invasion.  Even if The One gives blanket amnesty to all the current illegal residents, businesses will just fire the newly legalized ones they got now and import a new crop of peasants they can exploit. 

Hey Bob,

You nailed that one on the head!!!