[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I thought this speech noteworthy. We are apparently in the midst of a war called "enduring freedom" (and rightly so, I might add!)and yet right here at home our freedoms are being eroded faster than we can possibly realize. Will we continue to let the Federal government tell us that the ONLY way to win this war is to continue to give up freedoms one by one? At what point will the freedom erosion stop? We were once told that a Federall Income tax was necessary to fight a war. When the war ended, the taxes continued to grow and are showing NO sign of stopping this growth. Like the income tax, Once in motion, our freedoms will continue to dissappear and the Federal Government power over us will grow, in the name of Federal necessity.

[boomop1]

The horse is out of the barn a lot of states require ssn to get drivers license then they sell the lists the privacy act only protects criminals, like the clintoonn's

[Badray]

Liberty BUMP

[cruiserman]

Dr. Paul is missing the point. He would be better off pushing to eliminate Social Security and its associated mark, or at least decoupling its use as an identifier and an account number and a password in the private sector.

[Sgt_Schultze]

You know, even though you take care to leave your SS# in a "lockbox", it is still carried around in most American's wallets. Most medical insurers now use the registrant's SS# as the account number for their policy. It's a damn crime that the assurance of the government at Social Security's inception was that the number would never become an identifier. But through government mandated reporting in banking and taxes, its use prevails.

[jiggyboy]

Ron Paul for President. He's the only one in Congress who is really looking out for the Constitution in every (heck, in any) law or action under consideration.

[savedbygrace]

I went to Thomas and apparently the Act doesn't have a number yet. There is an identically named Act from 2001, but it's way different than what Rep. Paul is recommending here.