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Title: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: Javelin on March 09, 2010, 09:26:00 AM
Joy, more railroading of our rights, this time at the expense of illegals.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/

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Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.

Also I am really not surprised at the idiot Republican that is helping out the democrat on this one.  Can we say national ID card everyone?  Just friggin amazing.

Go eff yourself Lindsey G.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 10:32:10 AM
I'm waiting for Lindsey Graham to announce that he is switching parties at any time.  This and globull warming is what he's been talking about lately.  What happened to that law requiring employers to verify that workers were citizens?  About 2 years ago, we  were required to prove we were citizens at work.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 09, 2010, 10:35:33 AM
I'm waiting for Lindsey Graham to announce that he is switching parties at any time.  This and globull warming is what he's been talking about lately.  What happened to that law requiring employers to verify that workers were citizens?  About 2 years ago, we  were required to prove we were citizens at work.

That law still exists.  But I hear that the forgeries are quite realistic these days.

Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 09, 2010, 10:37:39 AM
Joy, more railroading of our rights, this time at the expense of illegals.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/08/id-card-workers-center-immigration-plan/

Also I am really not surprised at the idiot Republican that is helping out the democrat on this one.  Can we say national ID card everyone?  Just friggin amazing.

Go eff yourself Lindsey G.

It's not about immigration at all.  It's about more government control over every aspect of our lives.

I suspect I will live to see the day where national ID cards are mandated for all US citizens.

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Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 11:10:57 AM
It's not about immigration at all.  It's about more government control over every aspect of our lives.

I suspect I will live to see the day where national ID cards are mandated for all US citizens.

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If that happens, then showing them had better become a requirement for voting. In fact, that needs to be an amendment added to the bill. If that doesn't kill it then nothing would.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 09, 2010, 11:15:56 AM
If that happens, then showing them had better become a requirement for voting. In fact, that needs to be an amendment added to the bill. If that doesn't kill it then nothing would.

Ooopsie....

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"It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people's privacy," said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "We're not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work. We're also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification."


Bold added.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 09, 2010, 11:19:59 AM
And how will they establish your identity to obtain this card?

Last time I checked the I-9 was suppose to establish eligibility to work, buy a house, etc.

We don't need new laws to be broken we need enforcement of the laws already on the books (and a border wall).
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 11:28:19 AM
Ooopsie....

Bold added.

I'm siding with the ACLU on being against this?   :censored:
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 12:01:28 PM
And how will they establish your identity to obtain this card?

Last time I checked the I-9 was suppose to establish eligibility to work, buy a house, etc.

We don't need new laws to be broken we need enforcement of the laws already on the books (and a border wall).

Exactly!   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 09, 2010, 01:24:55 PM
This isn't going to become some hill-jack ignorant Mark of the Beast thread, is it?   :fuelfire:

I'm all for Graham f'ing himself, though.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 01:29:48 PM
This isn't going to become some hill-jack ignorant Mark of the Beast thread, is it?   :fuelfire:

I'm all for Graham f'ing himself, though.

Naw, that'll come when they want to start implanting chips in everyone.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 01:35:45 PM
Naw, that'll come when they want to start implanting chips in everyone.

I thought it was tattoos???   :-)
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 01:37:06 PM
I thought it was tattoos???   :-)

Bar codes on the forehead, with an RFID chip in the forearm .
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 01:49:26 PM
Bar codes on the forehead, with an RFID chip in the forearm .

That is right.  Been a while since I read the books.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 01:51:21 PM
That is right.  Been a while since I read the books.

What books?  I was just thinking of the easiest way for the government to keep track of people.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 09, 2010, 01:52:18 PM
What books?  I was just thinking of the easiest way for the government to keep track of people.

I suspect Issa was referring to the Left Behind series.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 01:53:30 PM
What books?  I was just thinking of the easiest way for the government to keep track of people.

You really need to check this out.

http://www.leftbehind.com/
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 01:56:13 PM
You really need to check this out.

http://www.leftbehind.com/

I've heard of them, but I'm not much into religious type stories.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 01:58:49 PM
I've heard of them, but I'm not much into religious type stories.

I hear ya.  And to clear matters up I ain't no hill-jack ignorant.... :-)  

I thought that was what DAT was referring to in his comment.  
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: Eupher on March 09, 2010, 05:02:57 PM
I'm waiting for Lindsey Graham to announce that he is switching parties at any time.  This and globull warming is what he's been talking about lately.  What happened to that law requiring employers to verify that workers were citizens?  About 2 years ago, we  were required to prove we were citizens at work.

Have you looked at the census report we're all supposed to fill out?

Last year, the Senate Dems blocked a GOP effort to have the census ask the question, "Are you a citizen of the United States?"

The reason ostensibly was to add the question would've delayed the census for a few months and that gerrymandering and reapportionment is based on "number of people" instead of the number of citizens.

Asshats.

The Senate Strikes Again (http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-6652-senate-blocks-census.html)

Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 09, 2010, 05:11:27 PM
I hear ya.  And to clear matters up I ain't no hill-jack ignorant.... :-)  

I thought that was what DAT was referring to in his comment.  

Not really, I have had to deal with people in my professional life who thought even having a social security number was somehow submitting to the Antichrist, long before the Left Behind books, though good connection on your part.  Let's just say I didn't regard those guys as the fellas "October Sky" was written about.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 09, 2010, 05:23:05 PM
Have you looked at the census report we're all supposed to fill out?

Last year, the Senate Dems blocked a GOP effort to have the census ask the question, "Are you a citizen of the United States?"

The reason ostensibly was to add the question would've delayed the census for a few months and that gerrymandering and reapportionment is based on "number of people" instead of the number of citizens.

Asshats.

The Senate Strikes Again (http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-6652-senate-blocks-census.html)



Several conservative blogs are saying to check other for race and write in American.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 09, 2010, 05:30:14 PM
Several conservative blogs are saying to check other for race and write in American.  :evillaugh:

I'm always kind of ambivalent about that since the wife and I both have some Native American in our background.  I think 1/16 plus a bit from farther back for me, though given the times when the bloodlines crossed, it was not the thing to talk about or hold onto, so the tribal affiliation is a long-lost thread.  When I feel cranky I check the block for it, though.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 09, 2010, 05:44:34 PM
I'm always kind of ambivalent about that since the wife and I both have some Native American in our background.  I think 1/16 plus a bit from farther back for me, though given the times when the bloodlines crossed, it was not the thing to talk about or hold onto, so the tribal affiliation is a long-lost thread.  When I feel cranky I check the block for it, though.

I'll not be responding to any questions about race on any census form.

I'll do this year what I did the last time.  Fill out how many people live at my residence.

That is the only question I will respond to.

But I do kind of like the idea of writing in American as race.  :evillaugh:

Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 09, 2010, 07:43:29 PM
Not really, I have had to deal with people in my professional life who thought even having a social security number was somehow submitting to the Antichrist, long before the Left Behind books, though good connection on your part.  Let's just say I didn't regard those guys as the fellas "October Sky" was written about.

Just so ya know I wasn't one of those people you were referring to.  I was just funning, but I don't want to be thought of as one of them.  Everyone knows the world will cease to exist as the Mayans foretold..... :-)
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: vesta111 on March 10, 2010, 05:58:39 AM
Just so ya know I wasn't one of those people you were referring to.  I was just funning, but I don't want to be thought of as one of them.  Everyone knows the world will cease to exist as the Mayans foretold..... :-)

Too late it is all ready rolling along and no one seems to notice.

Dear old Mom went to get her license renewed and at the age of 87 had to bring her birth certificate to be copied and stored some where for some reason.  She has had a license in her State for 60 some odd years, a passport, current, and her dependents military card-----However, non of that mattered, they wanted her birth certificate, nothing else would do.

She wanted to ask why her birth certificate was needed but as there was a line of impatient people out the door so she said nothing.  Only after getting her new license and driving home did she remember they never checked her sight.

Hang on kids, this will be coming to your town next.









 
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 10, 2010, 08:44:26 AM
Just so ya know I wasn't one of those people you were referring to.  I was just funning, but I don't want to be thought of as one of them.  Everyone knows the world will cease to exist as the Mayans foretold..... :-)

As long as you don't start waving an obsidian knife around, we're cool.

 :-)
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: IassaFTots on March 10, 2010, 08:55:39 AM
As long as you don't start waving an obsidian knife around, we're cool.

 :-)

You got it.   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 10, 2010, 07:49:30 PM
These people want to give amnesty to 20 million or more illegals, thats who the ID cards are really for.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: Javelin on March 10, 2010, 08:54:41 PM
These people want to give amnesty to 20 million or more illegals, thats who the ID cards are really for.

I agree.  Its the fastest way to legalize the current illegal workforce and bring in 20 mil new taxpayers.  The fact they get more power and we lose more rights for them is just icing on the cake.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DefiantSix on March 10, 2010, 09:39:54 PM
I agree.  Its the fastest way to legalize the current illegal workforce and bring in 20 mil new taxpayers.  The fact they get more power and we lose more rights for them is just icing on the cake.

Except; the skill level for the work that most illegals do wouldn't make them taxPAYERS under the current tax structure.  They would simply be a continued net drain on the Treasury, only "legitimized" by amnesty.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: Javelin on March 10, 2010, 09:45:12 PM
Except; the skill level for the work that most illegals do wouldn't make them taxPAYERS under the current tax structure.  They would simply be a continued net drain on the Treasury, only "legitimized" by amnesty.

I can definitely see how that would become true and reality.  Essentially they are here for good at that point with no real hope of a conservative political strategy to get rid of them as we should through deportation.

Ehh well, at least I managed to experience the USA while it was still, mostly free anyway.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: thundley4 on March 10, 2010, 09:48:32 PM
Except; the skill level for the work that most illegals do wouldn't make them taxPAYERS under the current tax structure.  They would simply be a continued net drain on the Treasury, only "legitimized" by amnesty.

And many of them with families would qualify for the EITC welfare program, and would be an even bigger drain on taxpayers.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: rich_t on March 11, 2010, 06:20:16 AM
And many of them with families would qualify for the EITC welfare program, and would be an even bigger drain on taxpayers.

I was just getting ready to post the same thing.  They have a tendancy to have a lot of kids.
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: Eupher on March 11, 2010, 09:46:15 AM
I agree.  Its the fastest way to legalize the current illegal workforce and bring in 20 mil new taxpayers money conduits back to Mexico.  The fact they get more power and we lose more rights for them is just icing on the cake.

FIFY
Title: Re: National worker ID card, or is it really a National ID card?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on March 11, 2010, 09:55:36 AM
Put citizenship status on the card as a condition for using it as voter ID, that'll kill the whole idea.