Alright, this is becoming a major pet peeve of mine, and the reason that identity theft has become not only possible but relatively prevelant.

You see, I spent the last eight or so years out of the "system" of state issued ID's.  No big deal, just basically meant I couldn't drive.  Hey, no car payment or insurance payments, so I wasn't complaining a whole heck of alot.  But when I decided to try and get back into the "system", I found a very interesting facet of disorganized government...

I DIDN'T EXIST!

Literally, I found myself in a never ending loop of needing a bank account to get a state issued ID or driver's license, and needing the ID to get a bank account...  Not so much to worry about right?  I mean, come on, how many people are going to be without a bank account or driver's license for that long?  While that may be true, it did get me thinking.

The Federal government bases all of it's identification on social security numbers.  It's what we pay taxes by and everything else.  Doesn't have a picture or anything else, just a number.  Unfortunately, what is acceptable to the feds doesn't float with most state governments.  Hmmm, maybe because the states are more interested in making money?  Don't know... don't care!

What I do know is, as a resolution to the problem I was having, a nice manager at my local Registry of Motor Vehicles advised me to go find a crooked bank employee and they would set me up with an account (without ID mind you) and that would satisfy the RMV's requirements.  So basically, a paper pushers requirements now supercede Federal Law...  Interesting!

But let's actually look at this...  If I was so inclined to do so, wouldn't it have been possible to find the same bank employee, set up an account under a complete fictious name, and STILL meet the RMV's requirements?  Hmmm...  and people wonder how ID theft happens!  It's called a system of identification that is now so convoluted and dependent upon "non-official" (or illegal) forms of identification that in truth it identifies no one anymore as a specific person!