National ID Cards - Coming Soon to Your Wallet

[WyrreJ]

I've been a database programmer with specialization in personal information directories for many years.

With all due respect, being the best brick layer does not make one expert at deciding to build a wall in the first place.

I'm sure more than a few of us here have worked on databases of personal records, at least one person here that I know of even had a substantial part in building the FBI's IAFIS database. But it is quite rare that those doing the engineering work have any experience in studying the social policy that leads to and results from that engineering.

You have not presented one negative about the technology.
Only made blank assertions like "it infringes on our rights" and "it takes away our freedom."

So far no one has made a supportable statement that the Real ID act will do anything positive. Nebulous assertions about stopping terrorists and illegal aliens have been easily disproven. It is simply yet another unfunded federal mandate with no practical benefit to the average citizen that could not be better served by private industry that at the same time increases the risk of government and criminal abuse of identity information.

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With all due respect, being the best brick layer does not make one expert at deciding to build a wall in the first place.

And the architect?

[WyrreJ]

> With all due respect, being the best brick layer does not
> make one expert at deciding to build a wall in the first place.

And the architect?

Brick-layer, architect - neither of them are responsible for deciding if a wall is a net good or bad for the community that it divides. They only get called in once the decision to build has already been made.