I awoke with a start this morning. I can’t recall what I was dreaming, but on the tip of my tongue was, “What a great way to nationalize the airlines.”

I was probably obsessing over the naked body scans and groping in all the headlines. Think about it. Airlines have been saddled with regulations with costs of compliance to be made up in hundred-dollar fare jack-ups; and taxes that for a trip to Europe now equal the total cost of a ticket ten years ago. Well, that didn’t force the airlines into whining for a bailout, so the next step in turning paying customers away was to treat them like cattle on the market. If people still insist on seeing loved ones far away, I’m sure the authorities have more up their sleeves.

After all, the president of the United States is the only person capable of running the aviation industry, and the automobile industry, and the healthcare industry, and the banks, . . .