America the beautiful

Every licensed driver in the United States of America will have to pay double the cost of getting a driver’s license in order to "thwart" a handful of terrorists:

The cost of obtaining a driver's license could double, and renewing a license by mail would end by 2008, according to state officials responsible for enforcing a federal law aimed at thwarting terrorists and discouraging illegal immigration.

"The 9/11 hijackers used multiple driver's licenses and birth certificates ... to live openly in the United States while they planned their deadly attacks. Real ID is an effort to prevent that from ever occurring again. We gave (states) three years. This is a priority, and it needs to be treated as such," he says.

In other words, because 9/11 occurred, we all have to pay a greater price to be safe. The tail is truly wagging the dog!