Posted on 03/18/2012 5:06:21 PM PDT by Starman417
It's so very important for the GOP and conservative voter to stay focused on the winning issues this year... that being it is, and remains, "the economy, stupid". The path to winning is one solid plan to propose - a broad, all encompassing energy policy that exploits all US resources to drive down current and futures barrel prices, create jobs and boost revenue, and liberate the US from dependence on crazy, violent Middle East despots and tyrants.
That said, I'm quite sure that the Canadian Free Press's article will start the stampede to characterize Obama's latest Executive Order as an intent to seize assets during peacetime, and dole them out to favored private industries (i.e. donors), and declare peacetime emergency martial law on a whim.
Do not... I repeat.. do not fall into this trap.
The EO of subject, NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS, was posted on the WH website Friday. And it's already got some of the history challenged fringe in the world a'buzz with whispers of doom/gloom and O'imposed anarchy. Thank heavens that both Ace and Ed Morrissey at HotAir have already gotten on the horn to interject some perspective on the EO, and hopefully thwart another foolhardy deviation from the real issues at hand.
To summarize in brief, the order revolves around updating federal government authorities granted under the Defense Production Act (DPA) of 1950, passed under the Truman administration at the onset of the Korean War. It's purpose was to ensure that the POTUS had the authority to force private industry to give priority to defense and homeland security contracts and to allocate the resources needed in the time of a national emergency.
A number of factors encouraged President Truman to propose such legislation. Both the armed services and the defense industry supporting the nation’s war effort had demobilized during the late 1940s after the cessation of World War II hostilities. With the return of peace, the Administration cut back military expenditures significantly. President Truman accentuated these cuts by placing heavy reliance on atomic weapons to provide for the nation’s defense. The perceived power of the atomic arsenal justified, in the eyes of the Administration, substantial cuts in expensive, manpower-intensive conventional military capabilities. This enabled the President to propose and Congress to pass much-reduced defense appropriations.In addition, the nation had recently experienced substantial economic and industrial turmoil. Demand for housing and consumer products, unleashed by the expiration of wartime economic controls, precipitated a series of postwar labor strikes. These reached their height in 1946 in a nationwide shutdown of passenger and freight rail service, leading President Truman to threaten to seize control of the railways and draft striking rail workers into the armed forces, placing them under military discipline. Though the presidential threats were never carried out, the strike served to illustrate the economic context in which the nation approached the Korean War.
I might also add that the DPA is a temporary law that must be reauthorized every few years by Congress... and has been done throughout Congresses dominated by either Party over six decades. Therefore if one wants to get into a snit about the DPA - where the central governments powers lie - it would be the time to contact your elected representatives with your beefs.
However, considering how easy it is for conservatives in general to distrust this POTUS, it's logical to predict that such a power would be abused when considering our current fragile economic conditions, adds the Obama gutting of military personnel while ME conflicts continue to flame - and a US still dependent upon that volatile region for our energy - it's easy to envision an Obama administration evoking what everyone fears as the worst.... seizure of private assets and picking the winners/losers of private, Obama friendly donors to enrich.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Move along nothing to see here; your peace loving benevolent government would never think of seizing your property, or curtailing your liberties.
Come on, don’t you feel better now that flopping aces has spoken and with such authority no less. Why to read this you just know that the POTUS is truly just doing ‘the people’s business’ with this E.O. No reason what-so-ever to be suspicious.
Unless of course you’ve been paying attention...
Beyond that, my main objection to the order is based on who is our current President. President Obama has already declared that he will do what he has to do to implement his agenda, with our with out the Congress.
Suppose he is reelected for another four years. What might he do then?
co-conspirators.
I am about sick of being told we have to stick to the real issues at hand.
We have more wrong in this country than just the already doomed economy.
People don’t like or trust Obama. He acts outside the Constitution and the mealy mouthed repubes in DC are too big of cowards to do anything to stop him.
It would be nice if the windbags at Hot Air and Flopped Aces could walk and chew gum at the same time.
Bath-House Barry treats congress as moot...and those of us who pay their salaries shouldn’t worry?
I am about sick of being told we have to stick to the real issues at hand.
We have more wrong in this country than just the already doomed economy.
People don’t like or trust Obama. He acts outside the Constitution and the mealy mouthed repubes in DC are too big of cowards to do anything to stop him.
It would be nice if the windbags at Hot Air and Flopped Aces could walk and chew gum at the same time.
Ya whats the big deal we can all be happy little slaves of the government. As long as business and the economy are doing good and the market is up... nothing else matters......
“Mata Harley”
Here is her other articles:
http://floppingaces.net/author/mataharley/
Dale Evans, she is not.
This is a BS “ahhh it’s OK” for the Obastard.
I would like to see his analysis of previous EO’s versus changes (”updates”, as happy face puts it) the Kenyan put into place with this EO. Oh, wait. He did not do an analysis. He’s just flapping his lips, chanting a mantra.
“Suppose he is reelected for another four years. What might he do then? “
Bingo
A good ad would be close up of the Kenyan’s eyes while a list of his enemies scrolls by...ending with..what would the lizard do...morphing into Hugo Chavez
Well now I feel a lot better. I can’t imagine how I got so worked up over a little thing like an EO that takes over the entire US infrastructure even during peacetime and can put me into forced labor. I’m sure Barry would never really contemplate going through with such a scheme.
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