Since we're in a buying mode...

Now that you and I--the American taxpayers--own the mortgage companies (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and the largest insurance broker in the nation, I thought it only right that we put the next items on our shopping lists that we want.

For me, I only want two things.

There are two things that this country needs and needs badly.

The first thing we need is to buy the health care system nationwide.

No kidding.

Virtually the rest of the free world has done this--and it works. Why not the United States? Let's buy it and then take the profit out of the industry. Again, the rest of the world has done it--and it works--why shouldn't we? Then we could all have the affordable health care and better health we should all have, as a right as living, breathing human beings.

Why should we let the hospitals, doctors, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies and all other leeches of the American health care system do their best to get rich off the rest of us, all at our ridiculously high expense?

The answer is: we shouldn't.

And the other thing I want?

It wouldn't even cost.

Let's nationalize the energy industry.

We can get rid of those leeches, too.