In Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger is just a mild-mannered construction worker from 2084. Or is he? Turns out, he’s a secret agent, who ends up fighting against the forces of corruption who use a technological arsenal to track him, erase his memories, and generally make his life miserable. I sort of get a Total Recall déjà vu moment when I hear some of the wacky stuff coming out of our nation’s leaders lately. There’s a furor in this country over the use of illegal immigrants in low-paying jobs. And as a result, politicians want you legal, American workers in all industries and jobs to suffer for it. Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, and Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, who should have better things to do right now, put their heads together and decided every employee should have a biometric identification card. They’re not sure yet what bodily functions the card would track, but a story in the Wall Street Journal offers a couple of options: * Fingerprint * Vein geometry. This would basically scan the configuration of your the veins on your hand * Facial recognition * Or iris scanning It’s all the fun stuff you read about in science fiction novels and watch in movies, but I have to say, I’m not sure I want to become a character in a sci-fi sequel in order to pay the mortgage. And I definitely don’t want my kids having to go through this in the future. The American Civil Liberties Union is not surprisingly worried about privacy concerns. But the group exposes other negative issues that could arise.

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