Fool Me Twice by Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott

Fool Me Twice by Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott

Author:Aaron Klein & Brenda J. Elliott [Klein, Aaron & Elliott, Brenda J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2012-12-24T13:00:00+00:00


A WHITE HOUSE “CONSOLIDATION AUTHORITY”

Yet another Obama initiative to expand White House control over U.S. trade and industry was reflected in a January 2011 announcement that Obama would call on Congress to give him the same type of “reorganizational power last held by a president when Ronald Reagan was in office.” The Obama plan was a “so-called consolidation authority allowing him to propose mergers that promise to save money and help consumers.” Reportedly, Obama’s first project was to be the combining of “six major operations of the government that focus on business and trade” into a single Department of Industry and Trade. The new agency would consolidate the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Commerce Department’s core business and trade functions, the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Trade and Development Agency.80 Following ever forward in expanding executive control, three of the six named targets for consolidation—the Export Import Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Trade and Development Agency—would lose their status as independent agencies. Two years earlier, a similar plan had been proposed by Derek Shearer, a former U.S. ambassador and former Commerce Department deputy under-secretary in the Clinton administration, not to mention a professor of diplomacy at Barack Obama’s alma mater, Occidental College.81



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