It's amazing really.

If the government takes over health care then the US will have the largest socialist economy on the planet, even larger then China's.

But the main shocking thing is that this nation has only dabbled in socialism in the last 60 years and is already effectively bankrupted and almost certain to default on it's loans some time in the next 10-20 years.

This nation is facing potential disaster because of wreckless government spending coupled with a mounting trade deficit and massive amounts of personal debt, and it is completely insane to even entertain more government control of the economy when, we, as a nation, face financial collapse.

Both main political parties have been, and still are completely complicit and co-conspirators in buying votes by satisfying the current voting generation at the expense of the next through spending and borrowing policies that would not only get a CEO of a corporation fired, but probably jailed as well.

Already the US completely bucks historical trends in that it still remains THE world power despite not being the largest lending nation.