WhyID? (or should that be WhyD) Its simple economics
Is anyone here familiar with the economic principle that rather than pay people unemployment benefits, it would be more beneficial to split them into two groups and employ one half to dig a hole, and the other half to fill it in afterwards. The psychology and spending habits of someone employed are very different to that of someone on benefits.
Which brings me neatly to my point: the whole point of the ID scheme is to increase government spending and employ people rather than pay them benefits! You can employ them making the database, making the cards, servicing the database, losing the data, organising a PR campaing to cover up the losing of the data, re-inventing the database every 3 years... the list goes on!
As the ID cards do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING of any use to anyone, this has to be the only rational explanation! Otherwise our government is scarily deluded......
Biting the hand that feeds IT
