What are we doing?
As a country we have too many Bureaucrats, when you have too many Bureaucrats they think up things to do. It's as simple as that, it's easier to create a new system and then blame the failures of that new system on the fact that it is new, than it is to figure out how to fix a system that exists and make it work for your needs. About once every six months or so we hear from one more Bureaucrat with another reason to have a "National ID Card" for the purpose of preserving our boarders, what crap! I thought we had one and it was called a Passport, am I wrong? And even with all of the drill that one must go through to get a Passport, they can still be gotten illegally. Read the paper, almost every month, or so it seems, there is another story of some large company or some "secure" government agency misplacing a disc with mutiple thousands of personal ID's on them. If it is there someone will steal it or compromise it, it always happens like that. My point is that no system is foolproof or for that matter truely secure. I have a great deal of respect for our men and woman in uniform, but I do not have the same respect for their (our) military leaders. I would carry 10 ID's around my neck if it would improve the safety or protection of even one of those kids; but it will not. It seems that the top brass always want something new and different because they can not figure out how to do their job and make the tools they have work. So in my opinion, no new ID's are needed on board or anywhere else in our country.
As a country we have too many Bureaucrats, when you have too many Bureaucrats they think up things to do. It's as simple as that, it's easier to create a new system and then blame the failures of that new system on the fact that it is new, than it is to figure out how to fix a system that exists and make it work for your needs. About once every six months or so we hear from one more Bureaucrat with another reason to have a "National ID Card" for the purpose of preserving our boarders, what crap! I thought we had one and it was called a Passport, am I wrong? And even with all of the drill that one must go through to get a Passport, they can still be gotten illegally. Read the paper, almost every month, or so it seems, there is another story of some large company or some "secure" government agency misplacing a disc with mutiple thousands of personal ID's on them. If it is there someone will steal it or compromise it, it always happens like that. My point is that no system is foolproof or for that matter truely secure. I have a great deal of respect for our men and woman in uniform, but I do not have the same respect for their (our) military leaders. I would carry 10 ID's around my neck if it would improve the safety or protection of even one of those kids; but it will not. It seems that the top brass always want something new and different because they can not figure out how to do their job and make the tools they have work. So in my opinion, no new ID's are needed on board or anywhere else in our country.
