I am from Barbados in the Caribbean and an ID is issued to all citizens from 16 years. No one here has complained about it. When you go to the bank you use for identification. I am wondering why people would resent something like this. It seems rather strange.
I think I agree.... the same people who are bucking this are the very same ones who complain about illegals getting things from tax payers...... weird.
The thing about the ID card is that it is no substitute for a passport. Our ID card is only to be used locally. I think that when doing business at least a person should be able to identify themselves. When I go the bank or have business transaction where I have to show ID I use my ID card or my passport. When I travel to the USA I cannot use my local ID card. I think the fuss is really unnecessary. Countries like Barbados have a national health service, would Americans object to that too. I think there are more critical issues in the USA that people need to concerned about.
If you like socialism, fine. We're Americans, we despise it.
BY THE WAY... you're a foreigner, so don't you DARE lecture us about what WE need to be concerned about. We are the country that has kept the world afloat since the end of WW2. We're the country that sends all the others food and decent water, builds a lot of their housing, pays to educate their children, brings them modern conveniences and defends them when they're too weak or too chicken-stuff to do it for themselves. WE give more of our money to foreign nations than just about any other country in the world. What has the rest of the world done for us? Curse us. Murder us. Figuratively dare to stick their bony little middle fingers in our faces. Blame everything bad in the world on us whenever they think they can get away with it.
We don't want government in our faces every time we turn around. Maybe YOU and the rest of the world like that sort of thing: WE DON'T. And if this offends you, good, because it's about time we Americans stopped taking guff from you and every other little pissant country in the world whose citizens dare to tell us what THEY think WE should do.
You seem to be suffering from paranoia. You call Barbados a pissant country. Would you be able to find Barbados on the map. I am not offended at anything you write, since I am happy where I live. Our literacy rate is 98% I am free to say what I want to say. The world does not revolve around the USA. Would be good if you can visit this island sometime, I have visited the USA, Florida and New Jersey and lived in England. You are hostile because someone decides to have a different opinion than you. Who do you think the USA is. Guess who America owes trillion of dollars to...China, so get off your high horse and look at the real world.