If the government is going to charge me $100.00 for a passport then they had better send Air Force One to take me to wherever I am going to! By the way- It is we citizens when used in that sentencing.

John is wrong and you are correct. It should be "sold to us citizens" because the preposition "to" requires the object pronoun "us" not the subject pronoun "we."

"we" in that particular instance is grammatically correct. Go back to school. Or maybe schools nowadays don't teach correct grammar - that's more than likely.

I am the spokesman for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). I would like to correct Mr. Barlow’s story. The Washington Post did not run a three-part series, as Mr. Barlow claimed. The Washington Times ran inaccurate stories last spring. GPO and Public Printer Bob Tapella responded by giving the correct facts.

The manufacturing of the nation’s passports is not done overseas. The men and women of GPO produce the passports at factories in Washington D.C. and Stennis, Mississippi. Here is a link to factual information about the production of the U.S. passport: http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/pdfs/factsheet_e-passport.pdf

Here are several more links:
A reporter with Government Executive challenged the inaccurate Washington Times story:

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0308/032708j1.htm

The Public Printer’s letter to Congress refuting the inaccurate allegations raised by The Washington Times:

http://www.gpo.gov/congressional/pdfs/ltr_securityofpassports_040908.pdf

These are the responses GPO put out immediately after these inaccurate stories appeared in The Washington Times:

http://www.gpo.gov/news/2008/08news11.pdf

http://www.gpo.gov/news/2008/08news12.pdf

http://www.gpo.gov/news/2008/08news13.pdf

Feel free to contact me with any questions at public-relations@gpo.gov.

I hope I cleared up any inaccurate information.
Thank you.

We do not need terrorists to destroy our country. We're selling ourselves away one inch at a time to anyone who crawls from under a rock. They're clever, we're stupid.

"Maybe they are going overseas because that's where people can speak ane write English"

You are missing the point. Regardless of the grammar used by the writer of this article, the distressing fact is that our passports are being made overseas in countries that have questionable ties to terrorist activities.

Grammar police have no place in a serious discussion of national security, and the security of our citizens who carry this necessary document when they travel outside of the United States.

I wonder where the new travel cards for Mexico and Canada are being made?

Bidders should be limited to the Continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.

JP

I say amen to that, now days you can't get a job in a 5 & 10 cent store if you can't speak spanish.

Gary Somerset - if all you stated to be true and accurate, does this also mean that by providing information that you have here, will also ensure that other necessary documents are infact, produced and regulated here in the United States? If you happen to have access to select documents, please provide documentation to the court that proves the birth place of Barrack Obama, as this is in question, and he has tried to avoid giving out the true information.

Read the replies. Loved the grammar corrections. Wonder, however, what grammar has to do with the fact that the United States Government is having citizens passports sent overseas to have security devices installed into them? Seems to me that security is not in the equation. What is preventing any of these passports from being manipulated for sinister reasons? What kind of information is on the passport after it is sent beyond the US borders to be modified in India and Thailand?

It doesn't matter what country makes them. What matters is that THEY SHOULDN'T BE MADE AT ALL! North American Union/New World Order here we come! Get right with God folks cuz it will be a wild ride.

You are the first and only person who reacted correctly to the main point of this article, i.e. of course it is stupid for the main security document which U.S. citizens carry abroad to be made and made "secure" in other countries!

What are you other people doing focusing on the correct/incorrect usage of "we citizens?"

If you think that 9/11 was the only terrorist attack the U.S. will experience on our own soil, you need to wake up. Our superiority complex has built up a lot of bad credit elsewhere.

Furthermore, 24% of Americans who travel to other countries are now victims of violent crime. We have a great country which has fallen from the heights we soared 50 years ago. Corruption and greed are not simply rife in Washington and on Wall Street. We all need to take personal responsible and stop this culture of "me" first, and not "we."