Executive Order of 3/16/2012 gives Obama the same power as Stalin had.

Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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This long-worded executive order is a real shocker, while being unnoticed by the media (of course). It gives the president total control of all aspects of the economy, both business and labor sides, "in peacetime and in times of national emergency." FDR used a similar executive order during WWII, but this is "in peacetime"! These are the same powers that Stalin and Hitler had; how did that ever get by without notice? Are we really done for as a Republic and just waiting for the final crash? This is not fiction, this is really happening!

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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago
    You mean he can now command the Red Army?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    By then, strugatsky, if it happens that precipitously, I and others here in the Gulch will be well on our way to starting a real Atlantis.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw the reference there to the earlier EO, but I need to read it to see if it also applied in peacetime. The national emergency/wartime is almost expected (nowadays), but in peacetime? What justifiable reason is there to completely usurp the Constitution?
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  • Posted by strugatsky 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Since there's no doubt that more people (and agencies) are reading this than should be, carefully I will say that if the collapse happens 10 or more years from now (inevitably it will happen), there will not be anyone left capable of rebuilding. The people with skills and education will be gone, and the new generation, except for computer skills, is useless. I haven't yet seen a programmer that can make food or clothing, or produce energy. So, if the collapse and a re-birth doesn't happen soon, I think that we will join the third world for good.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 10 months ago
    Isn’t this just a renewal of a law already on the books since the fifties?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago
    We're done for as a republic and just waiting for the final crash. And I ask a question that I asked a few months ago. Should we start hastening the end as the strikers did, or just wait for the end?
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