DO EDITORS READ THE PAPER?
Sometimes I seriously doubt it. How else can you account for the editors of the New York Times calling for a national ID card on the same day that the paper runs a story about a man who was held in jail for two months and nearly deported because of a fingerprint database snafu?
The very idea of a national ID card gives me the willies. Think replacing a lost driver’s license is a headache? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Your life could be on hold until some bureaucrat deigns to “pass” on you. You think I’m kidding? Just before the first Gulf War, Lydia went to change her name on her Social Security account. Armed with two birth certificates (one in Arabic) and her US passport, the clerk refused to make the change, insisting that she couldn’t have a SS number as she wasn’t a citizen. Weeks and multiple trips to the SS administration later finally cleaned up the mess. Multiply that 100-fold for a national ID card.
One Response to “DO EDITORS READ THE PAPER?”
 Comment by speedwell June 1st, 2004 at 2:15 pm |
And then there are those of us who are just happily monkeywrenching. The SS think three people are using my SS number… it’s complicated, involves two marriages and divorces… it just wound up all confused and, according to the law as I read it, simple failure to help the government figure out the real state of affairs is not a crime, so long as my SS number is being used legitimately by me and noone else. I mean, what do I pay taxes for if I have to do their secretarial work for them? LOL |