>>I do support nationalized medical care and I do support choice. However, when you look at all of his actions and policies together, there is a definite move towards socialism and government control over the public. Cap and trade is the most concerning.
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>>Watching your posts, I wondr if it would be more accurate if you said that you support heath care reform rather than nationalized medicine. I agree that we need heath care reform, but if we give it to the governement, it will just get worse.
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>But nationalized medicine is not what is being discussed. What is being discussed is the government becoming a provider along with others in at attempt to bring costs down. And finally doing something about the 40-50 million Americans with no medical insurance at all.

Well, you are carrying on a small discussion within a larger one then. My discussion has been about the size of the DEFICIT and this country's reliance on foreign money to sustain itself. In May 2009, the US owed China $772 billion. In total, lenders from Japan and China held 47% of the foreign-owned debt.

FWIW, the latest Charlie Rose interview with Pete Peterson is now available online:

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10443

The Chinese are believed to keep about 70 percent of their $2 trillion foreign assets in dollars.
Chinese central bank in March floated the idea of creating a reserve currency alternative to the U.S. dollar based on the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights—a basket of currencies
http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/06/03/china-s-debt-restlessness