A very well-written piece with a lot of facts and figures and some historical context. In it, the author tries to prove that an Obama, Reid, Pelosi government will permanently push the U.S. towards European-style socialism. Unfortunately, he undermines his own argument. First, Reagan did not start the U.S. on the road to being a superpower. That was already well under way by WWII. Second, since he cites historical swings in public policy, he's already demonstrated his claim that this one will be permanent is probably false. Still, I give him credit for avoiding the hysterical tone of some of the other similar pieces, and for providing facts to build his arguments--though he does leave out inconvenient ones that might challenge it, such as the fact that Germany, with a far more socialist bent in government spending, has had a higher growth rate than we do for a number of years.