“For the people by the people”, is balony. In order to stop the madness, it would take the American community of citizens to impeach the whole lot, right down to the smallest town mayor. Change the Constitution of America and states, to only allow 4 year terms maximum, in any elected office; this will keep the elected officials from gaining access or forming the good old boy network, in any political party. Furthermore, No lawyers would be allowed to run for office (state or federal). Making the laws and then turning around and interpreting the laws you have just made for your own gain, is just bad for business. Can you say Pharisee!

If people would just visit the websites of their states General Assembly and look at how many re-elected officials they have in both house and senate and compare how many ratified laws that they have either sponsored, or proposed and then compare how long that individual has been in office.
you might be surprised at what they are not doing for the people. Yet, year after year and term after term, they still remain, representing themselves, filling a void. Example,
even though he is dead, Strom Thurman-South Carolina…need I say more.

I’ve read the text of the RealID Act carefully. It requires the states to ensure that each applicant for a driver’s licence show a proof of name, citizenship/immigration status, social security number AND the current address; the law also requires that the state verify the authenticity of EACH of the documents submitted to satisfy the above requirement with the issuing agency. Here is a direct quote from the law:

“Before issuing a driver’s license or identification card to a person, the State shall verify, with the issuing agency, the issuance, validity, and completeness of EACH document required to be presented by the person under paragraph (1) or (2).”

Let us think about what this means in practice regarding, for example, the proof of address. When someone moves to a new address, what kind of a proof of that address could they produce? Presumably a lease or a mortgage statement or a utility bill, say a cable bill. Does that mean that someone from the state DMV will have to physically call the cable company and talk to someone there? How much time and effort will that take (especially given how long we have to spend being put on hold when calling any utility company)? And what about all the privacy protection laws? Can a cable company even legally disclose their customer info to a third party over the phone? All this seems rather insane to me.

I really don’t understand why the states are not fighting harder against this unconstitutional madness!