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   On 2026-02-22 5:17 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Seems as though Comrade Mamdani is taking a lot of crap from his fellow Dems   
   >> for requiring five forms of ID to become a city snow shoveler.   
   >   
   >> He did so poorly clearing the snow from the last storm that he's now asking   
   >> people to sign up and volunteer do the shoveling after the upcoming storm   
   >> clears. Imagine that. Paying all those taxes for a city department   
   >> specifically to clear snow, only to have the government beg you to do it   
   >> yourself because they ran out of money.   
   >   
   >> And to participate in this volunteer snow shoveling program, you have   
   >> to show two forms of ID, a Social Security card, and two pictures of   
   >> yourself. You need all that to shovel snow in NYC, but to walk in and   
   >> vote? Nope, you don't need any of that. And I've been reliably informed   
   >> that requiring ID is racist and that blacks and married women won't be   
   >> able to participate because they're too thick to figure out how to get ID,   
   >> so not only is Mamdani a racist, he's shutting out half the population   
   >>from even being able to shovel snow for him.   
   >   
   > Where do you get that these are volunteers? They are per diem employees   
   > which means New York must ask them to comply with both federal tax law   
   > and immigration law. They aren't paying illegal aliens to shovel.   
   >   
   > The stupid crap is minimum age 18. This is a boy's job.   
   >   
   It's a boy's job if it is just shovelling a couple of driveways. I   
   suspect they are looking for a lot more than that out of these   
   "volunters" (or temporary employees).   
      
   By the way, I had a guy come up to me a couple of weeks ago offering to   
   do my shovelling and he was way past being a kid; he was at least in his   
   30s. I think he said $40 but I took a pass. One time, when I had a major   
   accumulation on the end of my driveway and was overwhelmed, I actually   
   went to Yelp and looked for shovelling services. I only got one offer   
   and he wanted $200 (!!!). I told him he was out of his mind; he claimed   
   it was a typo and he meant $100. That was still too much in my opinion   
   so I did it myself by hand. It was a LOT of work but I got through it   
   with "elephant tactics" (how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a   
   time!). My driveway is just the standard one car-width wide and I was   
   only talking about the bit from the sidewalk to the road which is your   
   normal suburban distance but the ploughs had pushed a LOT of snow in there!   
      
      
   > You need specific ID to register to vote and to be found on specific   
   > government databases. The rest of the United States doesn't engage in   
   > California's potential ballot fraud problem which still cannot be solved   
   > with voter ID.   
      
      
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