I missed this story in the New York Times earlier.

one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a series of federal interventions, the government is the nation?s biggest lender, insurer, automaker and guarantor against risk for investors large and small.

Between financial rescue missions and the economic stimulus program, government spending accounts for a bigger share of the nation?s economy ? 26 percent ? than at any time since World War II. The government is financing 9 out of 10 new mortgages in the United States. If you buy a car from General Motors, you are buying from a company that is 60 percent owned by the government.

If you take out a car loan or run up your credit card, the chances are good that the government is financing both your debt and that of your bank.

And if you buy life insurance from the American International Group, you will be buying from a company that is almost 80 percent federally owned.

The entire article puts the warped scale of the socialist experiment in startling perspective. Such as the “200 civil servants ? accountants, lawyers, former investment bankers ? [who] oversee the $700 billion program that pumps taxpayer money into banks, insurance companies and two of Detroit?s Big Three auto companies.”