There will always be a crisis. The current one is global cooling/warming/climate change.
When the wheels are run off of it then it will switch to the next crisis. World hunger? nope done it, famine? no, communism? no, lack of food...hmmm, that could work.
Let's see, there are a lot of obese Americans, plus they are self concious, and have guilt issues for anything they can blame themselves for...you know this could work. We start off by showing starving babies in africa, then fat kids in America. The only way to save them is too eat less. How? jack the price up and say it's because there is less food available. You MUST pay the food tax. If you eat out it will be 20% on top of everything. But if you eat less than the regular amount you can trade food credits Of course the rich will buy food credits, and the welfare people will trade them in for booze and cig's so it will work perfect right?
Yeah, food credit's, BO can cap&trade food credits..FOR YOUR OWN GOOD of course.