current administration and congress by George Will.

"Having aggressively, even promiscuously, blurred the distinction between public and private sectors with improvised and largely unauthorized interventions in the economy, will they ever countenance a retreat of the state? Or do they have an aspiration that they dare not speak? Do they hope state capitalism will be irreversible -- that wherever government has asserted the primacy of politics, the primacy will be permanent?

They say not, but they say many things they probably do not believe. (That a government-run "public option" health insurance would not extinguish or even harm private insurance; that cap-and-trade carbon regulations will raise energy costs without injuring the economy; that taxing Peter to subsidize Paul's purchase of a new car is a sound basis for economic growth; that a 85 percent unspent stimulus has routed the recession, etc.) Two legislative proposals are revealing the administration's real intentions regarding government ownership of companies."

"So, shrewd and nutty people such as Rep. Barney Frank are brimful of excitement about arranging American life. What will stop them? The president accurately says Americans are "reluctant shareholders" of GM, AIG and Citigroup. But is he?"
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"If the Corker-Warner legislation is defeated, as Alexander's bill was, on an essentially party-line vote, this will be redundant proof that Obama's professed reluctance is fictitious. If it is, then what is real is what the Democratic left desires, an Obama Doctrine that says the trumpet of state capitalism -- capital increasingly controlled from Capitol Hill and the Treasury Department -- will never sound retreat."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...eat_98005.html


So many things this administration is doing behind their back while making all the pretty talk....have to give it to this WH...they are smart at being devious !

The bill that Will is referring to is explained as follows...

"There remains, however, the "TARP Recipient Ownership Trust Act," introduced by Sen. Bob Corker, another Tennessee Republican, and Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat. It says that when the government owns more than 20 percent of a company (today, AIG, Citigroup and GM), that stake will be controlled by an independent trust administered by three unpaid trustees appointed by the president. The trust would have two primary responsibilities.

One would be to guarantee that the companies are run not as political pawns but as profit-making entities seeking to maximize shareholder value. As Alexander notes, "there are at least 60 congressional committees and subcommittees authorized to hold hearings on auto companies and most of them will, probably many times." Another responsibility would be to divest the government's ownership stake by Dec. 24, 2011,........"

As I say...WATCH WHAT HE IS DOING AND NOT WHAT HE IS SAYING !

That's the problem. Some people only listen to what they say and don't care at all what they are actually doing.

Actually, in that "stimulus" bill, besides all the pork was stuck a few items relative to the health plans...creating a National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which the former Lt Gov of NY says...back in February...

"One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and 'guide' your doctor’s decisions."

"Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far," she writes, maintaining that the plan will limit growth and innovation in the health care industry."

Now this position was started by GW Bush actually, but keep an eye on this part of the "stimulus" plan !!!

I think the idea of using technology to cut costs is good, but all I am seeing is intrusion and more intrusion as this bill upped the spending for this quite a bit.