Deception at Core of Obama Plans

"Things. Now we know what they are. The markets recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions -- the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic -- for enacting his 'Big Bang' agenda to federalize and or socialize health care education and energy the commanding heights of post-industrial society."