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That's because states will be able to use the directory to locate deadbeat parents and dun them, typically by getting court orders that force their employers to deduct the owed child support from paychecks.
In his column today, William Safire goes off on an extended rant against all the ways in which privacy is imperiled, from your dealings with banks and employers and stores, to airline security and deadbeat dad tracking.
Look at how deadbeat dads are jailed, how drug- using small-fry get put away for decades, how the 30% of Americans who continue to smoke are gradually being made liable for the entire federal budget.
But while the Times swoons before these cradles of power, the general public-by which I mean my deadbeat friends-disdains them both, and it's not entirely jealousy.
"A lawyer of any kind would help, otherwise they assume you"re a deadbeat," the man said.