November 1, 2012
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Obama Establishes a Command Economy with Executive Order
Obama has issued an executive order which effectively establishes a command economy, and puts every aspect of production under the control of the Federal Government, specifically the executive branch. This is the opposite of what the Founding Fathers intended, and it is the opposite of what we need. There is no country in the world with a command economy that is a nice place to live, nor has there ever been.
Executive order 13603 a.k.a. National Defense Resource Preparedness is the culprit. Ostensably it was designed to prepare the country for war or invasions, but the provisios it contains are designed to operate in peacetime as well. It is nothing less than a complete government take over of the economy. Here is an excerpt from the order:
PART II—PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
(b) The Secretary of each agency delegated authority under subsection (a) of this section (resource departments) shall plan for and issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures by which the authority shall be used to promote the national defense, under both emergency and non-emergency conditions. Each Secretary shall authorize the heads of other agencies, as appropriate, to place priority ratings on contracts and orders for materials, services, and facilities needed in support of programs approved under section 202 of this order.
The entire order can be found here: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=100050
So there is the breakdown of which departments of the Executive Branch will oversee each aspect of the economy. Everything, from energy production and allocation to food and water will be under the government and directed by the government. The government will decide prices, it will decide what gets made and who gets it, and it will decide how much food and water you can have. This is probably the worst thing that ever happened to the country, and no one but a thorougly insane traitor would ever defend a thing like this.
Listen, executive orders are Constitutionally dubious at best, but this one totally bucks the bounds of the Executive Branch. If this is allowed to take effect the US is gone. We will go from a 1st world country to a 3rd world pesthole, just like Robert Holdren wants.
We must stop this man Obama. We cannot afford another four years of this man. We simply cannot.
Comments (8)
It’s just not true: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ndrp.asp
Specifically, EO 13603 updates a previous EO from Bill Clinton’s administration, which in turn updated previous administrations EOs.
Note: The new EO doesn’t add anything to the powers that the Federal government and administration didn’t have alreayd, and was really only required as the composition of the President’s cabinet had changed: in 1994 there was no “Department of Homeland Security”, and EO 13603 removes the specific mentions of FEMA for that reason.
Nice try, but you’re seeing what you want to see – shadows in corners in boxes.
@cmdr_keen - Forget about Snopes. They aren’t anything. I posted a link where you can read the actual order completely through and through. You can see how he is re-organizing the economy for government oversight of everything.
Of course there have been plenty of other horrible executive orders, but this one is among the worst if not the worst. We have to get rid of this man.
Also, I still want to know what the FEMA camps are for and why Obama has staffed them.
I was studying Hillsdale College’s Constitution 201 course on Progressivism and was blown way to find out that the Congress gave Commander-in-Chief domestic powers to the President back in 1932.
Those dictatorial powers reduce the Bill of Rights to nothing.
I’m sorry to say that it’s been over a century since America disappeared.
The Ruling Class has just been brainwashing us over the years and whittling away at the Constitution so that the transition to complete tyranny was gradual and acceptable to the public.
…Welcome to the USSA
This executive order is not an issue. It mirrors similar orders since Truman was president. Furthermore, it makes perfect sense given the scope of the Defense Protection Act.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - I really think that what they want to do is take us to a 1984 type of society, where the government directly controls all production, and there are no intelligent people outside of the party. These people are both parasites and eugenicists. They think that they are inherently superior to everyone else, or at least they think they should be, so they target us both socially and economically. They bring in hordes of unskilled low-IQ immigrants from the 3rd world while the numbers of welfare people grow domestically from natural growth, and then they put economic pressure on us to force us down into that group. They want us to be divided between “proles” and “the party.”
@Marica0701 - apparently so
@Ambrosius_Augustus_Rex - So what is the issue then?