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'Power grab' is just the expression I used to denote the government giving itself more power than it is supposed to have, which is what we were talking about.

Imposing them. The government has dropped the controls, but has not said, "We don't have the power to impose price controls anymore."

See above.

I don't think so, although possibly some were restored for Korea. Truman took over the steel mills to avert a strike; price controls were not an issue.

All the more reason, then, not to give the government any more power than the absolute minimum it needs.

And why Bush wants to make it permanent.

Note that Bush calls it a war on terrorism, not on al Qaeda. As long as anyone anywhere dislikes us enough to try to blow some of us up, the 'war' will continue. Since the war itself seems to create more recruits for the other side, it is self-perpetuating.

Yes. So that it will never go away, and the government will always have the expanded powers it wants.

Nothing new there. Both parties and their predecessors have been doing that since Adams was president.

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