Rev 13:17 talks about being unable to buy or sell without the mark of the beast. I have often imagined that the “mark” is actually where a microchip has been implanted in the forehead which connects to your bank balance. The check-out technology scans the UPC code on the product then scans the chip on the forehead to withdraw the funds. It will be sold to us as safe, secure and unable to be hijacked by identity thieves.
The technology for this already exists. All that’s needed to implement this is someone powerful enough and evil enough to compel it on all the citizenry. Obama, in his quest for government-run health care (already in place in much of Europe and many other parts of the world) , is establishing a government-run system in which citizens are compelled to do business with the government which controls the banking system.
The foundation is being laid and, intentionally or not, Obama is part of this movement to make government all-powerful enough to control whether we can buy or sell in the marketplace. There will probably be more Obamas in the future, interspersed with a few kindly populists who will diffuse the big picture, but the march toward worldwide government tyranny is on the way and nobody can stop it - nobody from this realm, that is.
That's probably the REAL job of Bluffdale. Not to just track peoples phone calls, but to track their every movement. Their comings and goings, every financial transaction, every association.
I know a professing Christian who thinks something like this would be just swell.