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political crap
my sister's political views piss me off.

forgive me for ever posting on facebook that while filing out the form to renew my passport, on the one side it asks for travel plans, and my first thought was that forget foreign country, my state isn't in compliance with their issued ids so soon i won't be able to fly without a passport.

and as far as i understand, the biggest reason the state hasn't complied with security regulations is that issuing whole new and improved drivers' licenses and ids would cost a lot of money (and it would be tax payers taking the hit).

but in the last couple of years, it was found out that our state treasurer and some of his people - were STEALING money from the state treasury. aka stealing tax payers' dollars.

corrupt much?

and while it's minorly annoying that we may need a passport (it may be worse for others who don't have one... i maintain one because i like to travel) to fly....
my sister has to go and get very political and say our state's noncompliance has to do with the state not wanting to provide the license/id info to the fed database.

um? that's a valid reason. i mean... don't you want to know that the people going onto the plane with you... aren't terrorists or at least don't have a record?

she's the same person who is against bringing in the syrian refugees. because they could be terrorists.
and she's against undocumented people and illegals.

correct me if i'm wrong but..... no papers, no flight. no passport or correct ID no flight.
it screens out the very people she doesn't want....
or would encourage the very people she doesn't want to have correct papers....
but she won't have any of it have to apply to her. and doesn't want any of her information going to a federal database.

that's backwards.

freedom isn't free.

and while yes, it's scary that the government has files on everyone. literally everyone.
in theory, if you've not committed any crimes - you'll be fine.

yeah. i'm a conspiracy theorist. i understand how scary it is. big brother is watching.
but geeze. you complain about illegals (and even suspect people who don't look like you of being illegal... (she lives in a place with a lot of hispanic/latino people, and some of them are illegally there. but who is to know who is and isn't there legally? she just assumes they're all illegal.....smh)).... but don't want to be documented yourself.
hmmmmm.
you want these people to be documented and paying taxes and everything....
but you don't want to be documented too?

you can't ask that one group of people be singled out like that.

i mean..... we could have people of european origin illegally here. but you'd never ask them if they were legal. you'd never even suspect it.

drives me batty. she does.

all i wanted to do was complain that my shitty state can't comply with federal regulations because we got screwed by the people who collect the money.

and she had to go and bring up s**t.






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MemoriesOfGreen
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commentCommented on: Sat Mar 25, 2017 @ 06:26pm
I bet she loves Trump.


commentCommented on: Sat Mar 25, 2017 @ 06:27pm
Also, I miss you.



MemoriesOfGreen
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