Sinergy
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy What I find interesting is they are instituting a Transportation Workers Id Card to control who goes in and out of the ports. I have to get one, and pay for it. To get it I have to be investigated, my right to work status validated, my citizenship, etc. Without a TWIC card I could not get onto the docks, even though I belong to a union. Outside truckers have to get one as well to get on the docks. I will have to say that the trucking industry is one which will likely lose a lot of workers when this gets implemented. I have not decided how I feel about it. I suppose I like the aspect that prevents illegal immigrants from taking jobs from people with a right to work here. The goal of terrorism is to create fear and uncertainty in the people being terrorized. It is done in order to elicit a response disproportionate to the actual act of terrorism. Al Qaeda blew up a few buildings, which is tragic, but the bigger damage they did was to permanently alter how citizens of the United States perceive the world, their lives, their country. Additionally, an enormous amount of money is being spent to feebly attempt to prevent it from happening again. This enormous amount of money being spent to do things like x-ray shoes could be used to build up our infrastructure and make better lives for our citizens. Sinergy LOL, Isn't this card required because the chinese or middle easterners or whoever we outsourced the docks to require it? I don't think homeland security had anything to do with this or why are the cards only green? Momma always told me that fools and their country are soon parted. Forrest No. It is the Federal Government, specifically the Department of Homeland Security that requires it. Sinergy
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