The 1 Card Solution

Gutten Tag, meinen Herren und Frauen, und meinen Frauleinen!
For the rest of you Undelings, good-day to you! I am, of course, the Center of the Universe, live and uncensored, direct from the Great Green Recliner, Killian's Irish Red in hand and the Vast Wide Screen giving me an unparalleled view of the galactic comings and goings of each and every one of you that matter to me. If you don't matter to me, you don't exist. Make yourself known and exist, minions!
Today's rant and rave will encompass a few different things, all rolled up into a simple solution: A National Identification Card System.
I know how so many of you out there are going to react, and depending on which side of the aisle your vote falls, your reaction will go. Either way, very few of you out there like the idea. But it is going to become a vital necessity very soon in this country, unless total chaos and utter collapse of our economy, identity, and soverenty is what you want.
For one, a single National Identification Card (NIC) would become an individual's driver's license, passport, birth certificate, donor card, social security card, bank card, hunting and/or fishing license, gun permit, and whatever else one would be licensed for. The card would be a plastic encased microchip encoded with a person's information, recoverable with only proper equipment designed only to recover select information. No single device (other than that at an issuing Government Facility) could recover all of the encoded information. This would, of course, be the primary security feature. Other security would include thumb-print activation, five-digit access codes, 3D photo of the card-holder, et.al.
Another feature of the NIC would be a color-code system whereby the key color of the card itself would be indicative of the holder. For example, the standard citizen NIC would be Blue. Students under 21 would be Yellow. Government Employees would be Blue/White striped. Military would be Green. Law Enforcement and Firemen would be Gold. Paroled fellons would be Red. Immigrants awaiting citizenship, student visa holders, and Guest Workers would be White with the flag of their home nation in the upper corner. Some examples.
Very little information would be written on the card itself. Only a person's name would really be required, although some verification code could be used in case of loss.
I think today's world is to the point were identifying who belongs and who doesn't is paramount to security. The benefits of an NIC outweigh any drawbacks. I know some will think it's a "Big Brother" thing, but this world is already there, and if you don't see it, you are blind! But "Big Brother" doesn't give a rat's ass about us little people. The more paranoid you are, the easier it is for them to control you. Think that over while you hide in your little dark corner of the basement, scared to enjoy the life God gave you. I pity you. But I digress.
The NIC would be an easy way to track the paroled felons, the visitors to our country, and get back in after taking a trip abroad. A single card to pay for goods, get a beer, board a plane, drive home from Windsor, sign up for softball, what ever it may be. Isn't technology suppose to make our life simpler and easier? I think this would do both!
Just a thought between gulps of great Irish Brew! Grosse Gut und Auf Wiedersehen!