Unzipped, tis the story of the US government. Waste, waste, waste. I thought the media did make a big deal about it. I saw it all over the news for a week. As for attaching things to the back of bills, that is pretty much a daily occurrance. Yes you are right you can technically "opt-out" of the other things. However, how many people use none of the things I mentioned? It doesn't really matter though, we have no control over the passing of this bill. All we can do as citizens is try to assure that it doesn't interfere with our rights. I still don't really fear the national ID, though I have heard there is talk of making IDs with RFID included. Now that I am fully against, and was in the first place. An ID to me is no big deal. But if there is a chip inside that can be tracked at any time, then I have to start letting the conspiracy theorist out. Anyway, glad to see this came back to a good discussion. Thanks for being patient.