National ID Cards, not so far away?

Did you catch the article in USA Today that talked about the effort the Federal government is putting into requiring employers to check worker id's against a federal database?

It definitely has an odor of end times stuff, so it seems.

Here are some excerpts:

"We're getting closer and closer to a national ID card," says Tim Sparapani, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

During a debate in 1984, former representative Don Edwards, D-Calif., compared a proposed enhanced Social Security card to an "internal passport." Twelve years later, conservative GOP lobbyist Grover Norquist flooded Capitol Hill with activists wearing washable tattoos of an inventory bar code to show how a government clearinghouse could become a way to "track" Americans.