The Administration is burdening the country with more and more rules and regulations: For example, White House moves to effect a step-by-step, de facto nationalization of American health care proceed apace, unimpeded by a confused Congress.
While the odds of an immediate government takeover of health care are receding, Congress will likely feel it necessary to do "something, " and that something will mean more government involvement, paving the way for a future de facto nationalization.
The cataclysmic talk surrounding European debt sounds a whole lot like what was going around in the U.S. in 2009 when it was fashionable to say that nationalization was the only answer for Bank of America, Citigroup et al. While you could argue that massive Fed loans amounted to de facto nationalization, it seems the plan worked and the banks are solvent.