Democrats hate REAL ID: Tough nuggies.

Gee… It “angers state leaders?”

Democrats are totally opposed to this requirement because it’s just one more step on the road of requiring proof of citizenship not only for a license, but for voter registration as well.

Democrats benefit from the fraud vote. They will oppose any action, law or regulation that will reduce the fraud vote because, ipso facto, that reduces their benefit.

Oh, they’ll never say that. They’ll come across like neo-comm democrat Sen. Lisa Brown, Majority Leader from Spokane, who is quoted in this story as saying

"’I think it will be hugely controversial,’ Brown said that in addition to money worries, there are also concerns about privacy and whether the law provides much of a benefit in return."

Nothing there about what those BENEFITS may be, you understand. Just a bunch of nonsense about costs that they have absolutely NO idea will be required.

Some idiot claims a cost of $250 million over 5 years, apparently for Washington State alone. That’s a crock, for so many reasons.

First of all, once an individual’s citizenship IS established, it will not ever have to be RE-ESTABLISHED. Thus, the costs will NOT be repetitive. Second, what, exactly, will it take to establish that citizenship? That’s not mentioned, BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE DO NOT YET KNOW.

But let’s pick Joe Sixpack, from Seattle. Joe gets a copy of his birth certificate, which we already have to pay some absurd figure for, or some other form of ID, like a passport or military ID card. He has a Social Security Number, as well.

He provides that ID to a counter worker at DMV. Counterworker copies everything and runs the Social Security Number for validity. The number comes back legit (You know, no more then one person using it and that one isn’t dead) or ilegit, in which case, INS is notified and the person is arrested.

How can a system like that cost $50 million per year?

Leftist goofballs hide behind a smokescreen of “cost” as a reason to oppose this issue. “As the word gets out about the law, the protest will snowball, predicts Jennifer Shaw, legislative director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington state. Lawmakers ‘are going to look at this budget request and hit the roof,’ she said.”

Like they “hit the roof” at democrat Rep. Deb Wallace’s (D-Vancouver) $50 million-for-a-study “budget request?”

Nonsense.

Expect to see the scum of the ultra-left do all they can to fight this, although, in reality, there really isn’t anything they CAN do. The citizenship requirements for licenses, like the citizenship requirement for registering to vote are BOTH long overdue. And the people of this state and this country will SUPPORT these measures.

As for the leftists… they’ll just need to find another way to benefit from the fraud vote they so covet. Right, Governor?



Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

REAL ID's cost angers state leaders

By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times staff reporter

A little-noticed federal law passed earlier this year to create what amounts to a national ID card is expected to cost Washington state around $250 million over five years and spark a public outcry.

The REAL ID Act, passed in May as part of an $82 billion military-spending bill, has some lawmakers stewing at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) annual convention being held in Seattle this week.

The law, billed as an anti-terrorism measure, requires states to get proof that applicants for a driver's license or state identification card are U.S. citizens or legal residents of the United States.

The new requirements are aimed at stopping illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses, thus preventing them from boarding planes or entering protected federal buildings.

The states have three years to comply. If a state doesn't, its residents would not be able to use their driver's licenses as identification to get on airplanes, cross borders or enter federal buildings. Other documents, such as a passport, would have to be used instead.

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