Car industry - GM has made their first payment on the bailout funds and plans to announce, next year, a timetable for the IPO of the "new" GM which will result in the government selling it's share of the company.

Health care system - the "public option" didn't make it so private insurance companies will still be able to make money off of you until you need chemotherapy - then they can drop you like a radioactive rock.

Banks - almost all have repaid their TARP funds and the government was about to sell their stake in Citigroup.

Insurance - ?

Student Loans - when I was in school in the 1970s, it was publicly managed. Now, with my duaghters, except for federal filing that keeps information in one place (FAFSA) it's all administered by private banks - and is MUCH more expensive.

The facts just do NOT support your constant clarion calls of government takeovers. The government came in and bailed out firms - and it's a decent debate as to whether or not they should have been let to fail - and they are now getting out. No matter how much you state to the contrary, it just doesn't change reality.

Where is the word that the administration will hold on to GM? to Bank of America? to Citigroup? ..and they wouldn't even TOUCH Chrysler!