July 27, 2007
Urban Survival

From the Seattle area, this telling email from a reader:

"I just got off the phone w a friend of mine who I haven't talked with for about a month. In the course of our conversation, he tells me about his good friend going to renew his driver's license. This friend was four days late renewing, so he had to have two pieces of picture ID in order to renew. The trick was that he couldn't use his old license as one of them. So, he runs back and forth four times and finally satisfies the criteria to get his license. After he renews he comments to the lady at the desk what a hassle it was. She responds...

SEE THOSE BOXES ON THE FLOOR, THOSE ARE THE NEW NATIONAL ID'S. WAIT TILL YOU SEE WHAT UYOU HAVE TO DO IN ORDER TO GET ONE OF THOSE. WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GIVE THEM OUT.....

This was at the Auburn Drivers Licensing....."

Hell, I'm so old I remember when a social security number couldn't be used for anything but employment and pay into my retirement fund - and politicians were all promising that would be all it would ever be - not a national ID card. WTF? How stoopid do they think We the People are?