Speaking of skin methinks someone's is too thin as in none of my threads have I resorted to name calling and have generally avoided labeling the poster by their political views.

I don't want to take this off-topic too much but you avoided my original point which was that people (on both sides of the aisle) who engineered and voted for the bank bailout during the bailout of Wall St. had no problem with the government getting involved in the financial system. The politicians (again on both sides of the aisle) basically protected the monied interests in that situation and that is what is occuring primarily with this so called health care reform. Only the hypocrisy is that politicians on both sides of the aisle are shrouding this protection within the usual political rhetoric of which cries of socialism is just one of them.