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Would you be shocked if the politicians in Washington, D.C. created a new all-powerful Executive Branch agency, with

- an unlimited budget
- no oversight from Congress
- the power to subpoena any organization or company for any and all information
- the power to create new taxes
- funded, thus controlled, not by the Government, but the Federal Reserve

Well, as a result of the Dodd-Frank Act, signed into law by Obama two years ago, The Office of Financial Research, or OFR, is starting operations. Many are speaking of this in Orwellian terms, but a much better analogy are the centralized ministries of industry under the USSR, where all planning, decision-making, and risk management was done in Moscow.

This is another 'trust us' power grab of unprecedented scale and scope, and a prime example of 'best intentions' morphed in the back rooms of power into a socialistic instrument of monumental economic control. In conjunction with another Dodd-Frank creation -- Financial Stability Oversight Council -- they will have immense control over the health and operations of the entire economy.

Rep. Steve Pearce, R-New Mex. “Our Constitution is pretty clear, and so if we're a little scratchy on our side, just understand it's because you're conducting things that we feel like are completely
unconstitutional.”

Rest of Article
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/19/new-federal-agency-ofr-stirs-orwellian-fears/?test=latestnews


Wikipedia Entry for OFR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Financial_Research