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“The Revolution Was” - written in 1938 by Garet Garrett about the New Deal. Another very long booklet, and reading the entire booklet, it shows how obama was using the same tricks that FDR used to bring about the New Deal - eerily so. In the excerpt below think of obama and his control of health care - 20% of our GDP. (Or any other “emergency” such as gun violence, global warming, etc.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts

Excerpt:

PROBLEM TWO TO SEIZE ECONOMIC POWER

This was the critical problem. The brilliant solution of it will doubtless make a classic chapter in the textbooks of revolutionary technic. In a highly evolved money economy, such as this one, the shortest and surest road to economic power would be what? It would be control of money, banking, and credit. The New Deal knew that answer....

It arrived at the seat of government in the midst of that well known phenomenon called a banking crisis, such as comes at the end of every great depression.... We were not going to die. The same thing had happened to us before, once or twice in every twenty years, and always before the cure had brought itself to pass as it was bound to do again...

In his inaugural address, March 4, 1933, the President declared that the people had “asked for discipline and direction under leadership”.... “But in the event that Congress shall fail... and in the event that the national emergency is still critical... I shall ask Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to make war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.”...

The word emergency was then understood to mean what the dictionaries said it meant — namely, a sudden juncture of events demanding immediate action. It was supposed to refer only to the panic and the banking crisis, both temporary.

But what it meant to the President, as nobody then knew, was a very different thing. Writing a year later, in his book, On Our Way, he said: “Strictly speaking, the banking crisis lasted only one week.... But the full meaning of that word emergency related to far more than banks; it covered the whole economic and therefore the whole social structure of the country. It was an emergency that went to the roots of our agriculture, our commerce, our industry; it was an emergency that has existed for a whole generation in its underlying causes and for three-and-one-half years in its visible effects. It could be cured only by a complete reorganization and measured control of the economic structure....It called for a long series of new laws, new administrative agencies. It required separate measures affecting different subjects; but all of them component parts of a fairly definite broad plan.”

So, what the New Deal really intended to do... was to reorganize and control the “whole economic and therefore the whole social structure of the country.” And therein lay the meaning — the only consistent meaning — of a series of acts touching money, banking and credit which, debated as monetary policy, made no sense whatever....