Well...it seems that this is being attributed to Mr. Obama..like it is something new. It's not new and the government has had a plan for many years.
Mr. Obama is neither bigger nor badder than any other president we've had in the last 50 years.
http://www.examiner.com/article/obam...-nat-l-defense
Actually executive order 10998 concerning confiscation of food and other things was signed by President John F. Kennedy and has been on the books since February 16, 1962.
Here are some Executive Orders from various presidents that most Americans do not know about. Imagine that. Our presidents signing orders that any current president may use and force us into work brigades, take our food and farm equipment and other things.
From this website:
http://www.disastercenter.com/laworder/11000.htm
Executive Orders
Executive Order 10995
Telecommunications Management
Executive Order 10997 --
Electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals
Executive Order 10998 --
Food resources, farms, fertilizer, and facilities
Executive Order 10999 --
Transportation, the production and distribution of all materials
Executive Order 11000 --
Manpower management
Executive Order 11001 --
Health and welfare services, and educational programs
Executive Order 11002 --
National emergency registration system
Executive Order 11003 --
Air travel, airports, operating facilities
Executive Order 11004 --
Housing and community facilities
Executive Order 11005 --
Interstate Commerce
Executive Order 11051 --
Emergency Planning
Executive Order 11490 --
Federal departments and agencies
Executive Order 12472 --
Telecommunications functions
Executive Order 12656 --
Continuity of Government
Executive Order 12919 --
National Defense Industrial Preparedness
Executive Order 12938 --
Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Executive Order 13074 --
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
"The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans...
Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule.
While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic."
--Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973