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Thanks Montana for sticking up for me.

The Economy crashed because the US Housing Market crashed, Thanks to the US employing a social program. The rest of the world crashed based on how closely they were tied to the US market. The closer you were tied, the more you crashed.

France and Germany were not as closely tied to out market then others (like the UK). As mentioned above, Australia didn't even have a recession, and they are one of the most capitalistic countries in the world.

How you can tie this recover into Capitalism vs Socialism is beyond me. How you can say Socialism works when ever sense the recession started, the US as acted more socialist then any country in the world, with an unbelievable poring of money into our economy by government with zero effect on the economy, is laughable.

You can't compare it, because for the last 2 years, nothing about the US economy is been Capitalism. I have said all along, if you let Capitalism work, we would have been on the path to recovery a long time ago. We never did that.

It's a better argument that the US has not gotten out of this, that Socialism doesn't work, then Capitalism.