{"id":155,"date":"2008-02-15T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/no-drivers-license-for-you-scumbag\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:57:01","slug":"no-drivers-license-for-you-scumbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"No Drivers License for You, Scumbag&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0639.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0639.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0639.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, February 4, 2008<\/p>\n<p>Michigan recently passed a somewhat draconian law regarding non-residents acquiring a drivers license. Like a lot of laws, the idea seemed sound &#8212; don&#8217;t let illegal aliens (read: terrorists) get drivers licenses, which can lead to them getting other citizenship-type benefits. But in practice it could cause all sorts of callateral damage such as highly valued foreign workers at multinational corporations, universities, and research institutes being denied licenses.<\/p>\n<p>The silly thing is, if a drivers license was simply a drivers license &#8212; a card indicating that one has been successfully prepared to operate a motor vehicle in Michigan (which should, by the way,\u00a0include advanced pothole avoidance maneuvers) &#8212; then this wouldn&#8217;t be such an issue. It would be in our best interest for <strong><em>any <\/em><\/strong>potential driver to have one &#8212; to be licensed to drive.\u00a0Unfortunately, a drivers license functions as so more in its capacity as a picture ID. So now we have this unfortunate law on the books and our Attorney General is enforcing it. Good thing we don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; foreign investment here in Michigan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, February 4, 2008 Michigan recently passed a somewhat draconian law regarding non-residents acquiring a drivers license. Like a lot of laws, the idea seemed sound &#8212; don&#8217;t let illegal aliens (read: terrorists) get drivers licenses, which can lead to them getting other citizenship-type benefits. But in practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}