On Jun 17, 2:12 pm, john smith wrote:
In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Real-ID: Costs and Benefits
The argument was so obvious it hardly needed repeating. Some
thought we would all be safer -- *from terrorism, from crime, even
from inconvenience -- *if we had a better ID card. A good,
hard-to-forge national ID is a no-brainer (or so the argument goes),
and it's ridiculous that a modern country like the United States
doesn't have one.

True story...
I was talking to a friend the other day about cell phones.
He then told me about an instance he witnessed in a Circuit City story a
couple days earlier.
A group of five young Mexican males arrived in a vehicle ahead of him.
He walked into the store behind them. They went to the cell phone area
and began looking at the phones. One fellow wanted to buy phone and
phone plan. The clerk asked for a drivers license for identification.
Not one of the four had a drivers licence. The clerk asked for any form
of identification in an effort to make the sale. Again, not one of them
had any identification.

(Disclaimer to the rabid political oriented who inhabit this group: This
is not an anti-immigrant rant, this is just a true story.)

Not trying to defend these individuals, but if someone wants to buy a
prepaid phone and a prepaid plan, I don't see why you need to show any
id.