These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar.
I know! I hate to sound jaded but this doesn’t really surprise me... I first read about these kinds of people with this evil agenda a number of years ago, and I think we’re heading in that direction. It is part of a bigger plan... and now is the time to make people aware of it.