[CitsMoise17]

The card would simply be a biometric SS card. I really do understand why people 'worry' about it being a national ID card but the issue has devolved into what American politics always becomes - a screaming argument.

I don't like the idea of the government being in charge of anything as much as any libertarian but the reality is that if we didn't have SS cards (a form of, oh-no, national identification) we've have total Dark Ages madness with regards to employment and taxpaying. By introducing a new system we can effectively improve efficiency and adherence to law at, let's face it, no real cost in privacy.

In case someone hasn't told the conpsiracy theorists we already have state IDs and if anyone seriously wanted to track us to the extent that they could with the new SS card they'd simply follow our driver's license. Our vehement ID hatred is responsible for this country's worst security risks. We need effective control over who purchases chemicals, flight lessons, guns, tickets to Yemen, and a multitude of other pieces of info that have little to do with abridging privacy and are there to keep us reasonably safe.

This is of course a larger problem but I for one was pretty pissed off that the US intelligence community only found out the Americans in Yemen had worked at nuclear power plants when they caught them. This resonates a little too strongly given the fact that 3000 of us were murdered because no monitoring of employment and certain at-risk activities exists.