This is very scary stuff. Read the article.
Time To Bury REAL ID
Fund it? Kill it.
The Senate will be voting this week on funding Homeland Security this week,
and one national ID card-loving politician is trying to slip-in a little REAL ID
funding: he needs to be stopped.States have strongly resisted this unfunded federal mandate ñ one that the
Department of Homeland Security expects to cost more that $23 billion or almost
$100 per license holder. Seventeen states have said ‘no’ to REAL ID ñ labeling
it invasive, un-American, costly and an invitation to identity theft. They know
it will force citizens to stand in long lines for licenses and endure numerous
hassles looking for documents like birth certificates.Now instead of listening to the states, Senator Lamar Alexander plans to
offer an amendment to this year’s Homeland Security funding bill that will take
hundreds of millions of dollars away from important things like port security,
the Coast Guard, and disaster preparedness. He wants to give a little cash to
the states to fund REAL ID ñ 300 million dollars-worth ñ and expects the states
to gratefully pay the remaining 22.7 billion dollar tab.