Rep. Jeff Flake Advocates National ID

July 2, 2010: "Immigration Fact and Fiction" featuring Rep. Jeff Flake 

@4:04:

Caleb Brown (B):  You talked a little about the necessity to have a biometric identifier for people who are coming into this country to work.


Representative Jeff Flake (F): Yes.


B:  Legally does that not in your view invite that type of federal document for all workers in the United States.


F: I don't think so.  We have in theory a national identifier now in terms of work as it relates to work and that's a social security card.  The problem is it is simply not secure.  So we're not proposing legislation that we introduced does not propose a national ID it simply says that if you want to work then you should have a social security number that is tamper proof and biometric.  And that would certainly help substantially employers who really don't know when they are presented with a document if it is genuine or not.

End @5:03

My thoughts:  Representative Jeff Flake has been one of my favorite US representative.  It's sad to hear him playing the world game on national ID.  The social security card is a form of national ID that has become much more than it was originally was supposed to be for.  Now Flake is proposing to increase it's importance in our daily lives.

This is what happens when you have socialism, an increase in state power and the police state.  We need to get at the root of this problem and stamp out socialism in our country.

It's interesting to note that radio talk show host Ernest Hancock has been crying fowl on this issue for quite some time now.

AZ News & Blogs 6/19/2010

• Arizona Immigration Law = National ID for Arizonans 
• Despite protestations to the contrary from the law’s sponsor and others, this law turns the Arizona drivers license  (actually any state license) into a national id.
• It’s a common misconception to believe that the national id must be a card or a chip.
• National ID not a card or a chip, but is the data that the federal government has on you.  What the federal government has been attempting to do for many years, most notably under the Clinton administration, was to find a way to integrate all of the various data they have on American citizens into an easily searchable, easily sharable database and data exchange format.
• My thoughts:  Ernest Hancock has been talking about this for quite some time.
• But They Are Politicians 
• Jacob Sullum writes about the gnashing of teeth among Arizona politicians that suddenly must rely on voluntary contributions rather than campaign funds taken by force from taxpayers who may not even support them.
• But if they were reasonable people who considered long-term consequences and took responsibility for their own actions, would they even be politicians.  Is it any surprise that a class of human beings who, in response to looming bankruptcy in Medicare, pass a trillion dollars of new health care spending commitments closed their eyes to what would likely happen when this campaign finance law reached the Supreme Court?
• Court premature in stopping matching funds 
• My thoughts:  Well, the coyote blog said it best.
• Primary Election Debate Videos 
• Republican Candidates for Governor 
• Uptick in Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans 
• Lawmaker Warns Parks Takeover by Mexican Cartels, Illegals 'Intensifying' 
• My thoughts:  More reason to resolve the core issues: legalize drugs, get rid of NAFTA, etc.
• Ernest Hancock interviews Nick Dranias of Goldwater Institute on Clean Elections 
• My thoughts:  This is really good.  Don't miss listening to it.
• Ernest Hancock talks on local politics (Mesa) 

AZ News & Blogs 5/12/2010

Speed Cameras

• Ernest Hancock Interviews camerafraud.com

Taxes

• Taxes Truly Are High 
• Households across America are spending more on taxes per year than they ever have in history. 
• Unemployment Benefits Create Unemployment 
• In Detroit: In a state with the nation's highest jobless rate, landscaping companies are finding some job applicants are rejecting work offers so they can continue collecting unemployment benefits.

National ID

• The Left the Right and National ID 
• The left has wanted Americans to register with the federal government and obtain a national id card ever since Franklin Roosevelt tried (and failed initially, until he stacked the court in 1937) to get the Supreme Court to rule that the Social Security system was constitutional.

Illegal Immigration

• Border towns say violent crime rates are low 
•  FBI Uniform Crime Reports and statistics provided by police agencies, in fact, show that the crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma and other Arizona border towns have remained essentially flat for the past decade, even as drug-related violence has spiraled out of control on the other side of the international line. Statewide, rates of violent crime also are down.
  
  While smugglers have become more aggressive in their encounters with authorities, as evidenced by the April 30 shooting of a Pinal County deputy, allegedly by illegal-immigrant drug runners, they do not routinely target residents of border towns.

• Large share of illegal immigrants entered on visas, not across border 
• The Pew Hispanic Center, a research group that studies issues, attitudes and trends among the Hispanic population, estimated in 2006 that almost half of the 10.8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. came here with visas and stayed after they expired....By and large, individuals who remain in the U.S. after their visas expire are more educated than those who cross the border illegally, in part because they must demonstrate proof of completing higher education, having a skilled job or being economically stable, said Giovanni Peri, an economist at the University of California, Davis....As legal immigrants, many in this group would work in better-paying jobs, Peri said, but without documentation most wind up competing for low-paying jobs along with those who entered the country illegally.
• Kirkpatrick to propose 3,500 more border agents