I never seen so much struggle to live in a developed country like I do in US. And here there's no neighbors or family to help you out.

In other countries there's a sense of community and cooperation. Not here, if you need something and you don't have money you're effed.

Here they make money off of despair, high interest rates on loans and private penitenciaries for absurd free slave labor profit.

Socialism is a cancer. With that said it is alive and well in the United States.

Socialism discourages REAL charity and giving. Socialism enslaves the productive citizenry and makes them subject to the recipient class while simultaneously propping up the statist politicians who take every advantage for themselves while expempting themselves from the very programs they endorse. Why do you think the politicians aren't taking part in our precious Affordable Health Care Act along with the commoners and unions and big corporations are seeking exemptions or waivers and for the most art getting them? Because they all know it will suck and they are much too important to have to wait for rationed care. Socialism doesn't so much take care of those that are in need as much as it breeds dependancy and creates division amonst the populous.

Socialism is for the people not the socialist. All hail the recipient!

So, Socialism may be alive and well but I personally would love to see it die a quick death so we could get on with real progress.

Socialism is a cancer. With that said it is alive and well in the United States.

Socialism discourages REAL charity and giving. Socialism enslaves the productive citizenry and makes them subject to the recipient class while simultaneously propping up the statist politicians who take every advantage for themselves while expempting themselves from the very programs they endorse. Why do you think the politicians aren't taking part in our precious Affordable Health Care Act along with the commoners and unions and big corporations are seeking exemptions or waivers and for the most art getting them? Because they all know it will suck and they are much too important to have to wait for rationed care. Socialism doesn't so much take care of those that are in need as much as it breeds dependancy and creates division amonst the populous.

Socialism is for the people not the socialist. All hail the recipient!

So, Socialism may be alive and well but I personally would love to see it die a quick death so we could get on with real progress.

When people discuss socialism versus capitalism they usually use ideal as example for the first and the worst real life examples for the second, never the opposite, so you know why they keep getting bigger (human beings preffer to blame others for their short comings).

I feel like you don't fully get what Socialism is.  So, for your sake, I fetched you a definition.

socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism

I feel like you don't fully get what Socialism is.  So, for your sake, I fetched you a definition.

socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551569/socialism

You are very much correct. I personally like to look at both from a real world view. In the United States we have so much available food because of Capitalism and the advent of the low profit margin Supermarket that we now measure hunger with terms like 'food insecurity' and 'food deserts' etc. In other countries they where real hunger is present they still measure starvation as an example.

My point is that most people would prefer to be poor in the United States over any other place on Earth.

To be poor in a capitalist country > poor or even middle class in any other country.

I know exactly what socialism is. Welfare, socialized medicine, etc. etc. are all Socialism in its basic form. Confiscating capital through taxation to redistribute it to others for the sake of paying for their basic needs is the VERY definition of Socialism. Thank you for contributing though. :)

Just what I said... and we see all the good it idea have caused in Russia, China, Vietnan, Cuba, Venezuela (and is trying to cause in Brazil)... if you can stay away from this disease, the only game I can remember that came from a socialist country was Tetris... they are the real enemy...

People lets not argue which is the best gaming system (sony, ms, ninty, valve, google, apple, etc), but agree that the best economical model for game is capitalism.