UK ID card.

[TheFaQQer]

Let me guess - he offered 50% discount on Oracle database?

Close - he offered a 100% discount on the database to the US government if they were considering bringing in something like that.

I think I read somewhere that Oracle was founded on the basis of selling an ID database ...........

Oracle was the codename of a project for the CIA that the company founders had all worked on. No idea what it did, though.

Except that on the government's own figures, the vast majority of the estimated 3bn benefit fraud has nothing to do with people having false identity, it is people lying about their circumstances, not who they are, and with even the government admitting ID cards will cast more than 5bn, it's hard to see how any savings will be made, especially as they will be late and over budget.

ID cards are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist

I didn't say that it would make any savings - I said that if it was marketed as such, then people might be more inclined to get one.

If the Heil started broadcasting the message that having one would stop the illegal immigrants and spongers taking your hard earned tax revenue, then the swing in public opinion would be enough to make the project a success. It doesn't have to be any truer than the rest of the shit that they print, but I'm sure that it could be as persuasive.