Why the pathetic left isn't up in arms over this and the other clear erosions of our liberty that Obama and the dems have been party to over the past few years is all one needs to know about their non-existent love of liberty and privacy.
And anyone who thinks this won't end up being used by the government for the data mining purposes is downright delusional.
The left isn't upset, because its the left that is considering it. The left will do what the left thinks is right. But when someone else comes into power... then its terrible. The left doesn't think its people will abuse power, I believe the right thinks this way too. But those other guys..!
Stop thinking we and them, think of the goverment as a seperate being.
It might be made up of left thinkers, or right thinkers, but it is self serving,
and interested in increasing its power and control.
And let's keep in mind that the government's #1 job is to keep it's citizens safe.
Lets just give goverment all our money, personal information, our weapons to defend ourselves with, and every aspect of our lives so they can keep us safe.
The person that wants goverment to provide everything must expect goverment to take everything in order to do that.
-1;the person that wants the goverment to keep them completely safe, must put all trust in the goverment to do so.
So the goverment will know every place you go online?
Goverment will know what you buy online?
Goverment will be able to know who you are when chatting or posting on a forum?
Goverment will be able to know where most of us go on vacation?
And eventually, goverment will compromise some or all of the id's, allowing the world to know above, and probably will profit some criminal in some way.
Goverments id # is the reason people need to pay protection money to organizations that will help prevent identity thieves. Now goverment wants to centralize everything into one id?
Goverment is not the answer, unless the question is how to tie up everything in red tape.