Obtaining an authentic-looking Social Security card with a made-up or stolen number is easy, according to undocumented workers, who said they purchased them outside T stations or from friends.
Fake IDs are rife at state job sites - The Boston Globe
Yeah, it's a problem with the Social Security number thing, but why blame the whole thing on mopes like this?
One laborer who helped build the new jail in Billerica submitted a number that should have immediately raised eyebrows: 666-66-6666.
Why not blame it on all the insurance companies and banks and employers and Congressbimbos and all the various and sundry other people who were too lazy to figure out a system of their own and so just picked up a number - and a good number, too - and used it for their own purposes in a way it was never intended to be used in the first place? Whew. That was a long sentence, huh?
I mean, look. The thing about being a geezer is you remember stuff. Like how, when Social Security was a new thing, there was a lot of controversy over the number idea because it smacked too much of "national ID" and people were worried about things like that back then, there being Nazis running around all over the place and such, not like today. The worried part, I mean. So the Gummint said, hey don't worry, nobody'll ever know this number except you and the SSA. We'll print it right here on the card, see? Not to be used for identification.
Didn't work out that way. And whose fault is that? 666-66-6666's? I think not.
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