North Carolina's Transportation Committee has passed a bill to extend the number of years a driver’s license is good for, a couple more years, to ease the pressure the state DMV system is currently facing.

Legislator Jay Adams has been clear: this measure seeks to reduce the stress of citizens and prevent them from being punished because of the system itself. It’s not about giving away licenses or allowing people without licenses to drive, but about accepting that the current system is unable to cope with the problems it's created with "Real ID" (wasting the DMV's time and citizens, to bring a birth certificate and social security card to the DMV to get ANOTHER version of a drivers license that DOES NOTHING for driving, or licensing to drive) being required to fly airlines INSIDE the USA. 

In other words, the govt, in it's wisdom and effort to stay busy, created a boondoggle, that wasn't well planned, or well executed

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