I've been following the SSN debate for a bit and I have not yet seen any mention of the fact that there is a legitinmate nneed to a single identification number to tie together the various parts of people's information.

I don't want all the various parts of my information to be tied together
by other people for their benefit.

Jose
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Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.