(August 14, 2013 at 6:21 pm)Chuck Wrote: The US has a hallowed tradition of pretending everything on god's flat earth that's worth seeing by a christian must lie within the borders of US of A, most likely on this side of disneyland, therefore it is not all that common for poorer American families to actually have passports for other reasons.
The cost of US passport is $135, and it generally takes longer than 2 weeks from application to delivery. $135 is not an insubstantial sum for a family living at or below the poverty level. Furthermore, if you never had a passport and are applying for the first time, you must do so in person on a weekday at a designated passport office or post office, thus requiring you to take some time off from you low hourly wage job.
Are there not other isntitutions that give ID`s? Is a driving license not an ID in the US?
I live in a society in which you need an ID for almoust everything and where ID`s are also provided by institutions.
