Obama Takes More Control by Executive Order

On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order
which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster
Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete
control over all the resources in the United States in times
of war or emergency.

The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the
Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy,
production, transportation, food, and even water resources
by decree under the auspices of national defense and national
security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation,
as one of the order’s functions includes the command and
control of resources in peacetime determinations.