[citation][nom]jellico[/nom]As opposed to SOCIALISM which has failed everywhere its tried. The problem isn't capitalism... it's government. Large and powerful companies are able to rig them game in their favor by buying off entire voting blocks of politicians on both sides of the aisle. Then, on top of all of that, you have the government spending our children and grandchildren into debt that they will never get out of, all for the express purpose of making sure that the idiots who voted them into office will continue to do so.[/citation]
Your view of socialism is incorrect, for what ever reason you equate socialism with "big government'. When in fact socialism, like capitalism, isn't a system of government but an economic structure. Socialism is an economic system in which the customers of a business are both consumer and owner of said business. Electric, water, teleco co-ops are all socialist organizations they exist only to provide the service they offer, whereas a public utility like Duke power or Verizon exist to profit from providing the same services. Wither one is better then the other comes down to the commitment to service they have.
As far as governments are concerned assuming that all governments are businesses all democracies are in fact socialist, each citizen pays into the government with the expectation that no one in the government looks to create wealth just provide services (schools, roads, military and so on). Whereas a monarchy or dictatorship would be a capitalist business as the ruler uses taxes to provide services and to increase personal wealth.
The issue of debt in this nation has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It has to do with the fact that raising taxes for any cause is political suicide which is why we have been borrowing money since the Civil War. The trillion dollar cost of the Iraq war was all borrowed because there was no one from either political party to say "I'll pay more taxes to fund the war". And the same is true of every program, office, and war the federal government is involved in we want what we want but we don't want to pay for. To address your big government concerns realize that even if the federal government eliminated every program, office, department, cabinet, and outside aid money; leaving only loan payments, military spending, medicaid/medicare, and social security our nation would still be borrowing 20 cents for every dollar spent for those programs alone.
Socialism isn't taking care of the needy it simply transfer ownership of businesses it has nothing to do with debt or social programs. The debt issue our nation faces will only be truly addressed when the government taxes for every dollar it spends. And again even if you cut everything but those 4 programs tax revenues will still have to increase 20% to balance the budget.
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