Socialist... Go back to Sweden. Captialism is what built this country and now that the free market is under attack by people like obama and hillary and yes, even mccain, our economy is in the shitter. Change is not the answer. Hope is definately not the answer. Shrinking the gov't is the answer. Lowering taxes and shutting down special interest beauracracies would go a lot farther to help the working man than to have a socialist like barack obama come into power and start raising taxes across the board. Raising taxes does nothing but give the gov't more money from us to WASTE! the only place money is made to work to its fullest capacity is in the private sector, where real effects of how that money is spent is fealt. if they fuck up the investment, the company is ruined, If the gov't fucks up the investment, tax the citizens more and go on to next line item. We don't have money to waste and every day we give more and more of it to our sleezy politicians who end up doing nothing and ask to be reelected. and when the economy is in the shitter because of all this socialistic wasting of tax dollars, the WORKING MAN IS THE ONE WHO FEELS IT THE WORST! how about lower prices for the working man? wouldn't that help him through his daily grind a little bit more than having gov't programs try to cater to his needs that will ultimately go unfulfilled and will require further gov't interaction to resolve?

The fundamental part of free market capitalism that make it so attractive and actually work is its incentive to succeed. If you succeed, you become wealthy and lead a better life, and if you fail, like in nature, you perish. Its survival of the fittest, just like out in the wild. The world isn't a utopian place. Not everyone can succeed as not everyone has something to provide to the world. It's kind of like feeding the squirells at the park. It makes you feel warm and toasty to see it come up and grab that peanut out of your hand but while YOU feel great about yourself and can rest at night on those warm fuzzy feelings, that squirell no longer feels the need to gather food on its own and actually work for its survival. it knows that some guy will sit at the bench the next day and feed him more peanuts. Then, when homie can't afford to buy peanuts because he has to pay 5.00 a gallon for gas, squirell dies cuz it has forgetten how to forage for food.

I know you all want to appear nice and friendly and kindhearted but socialism is not the answer to making the world a better place. Unless inefficiency and bloated wasteful do-nothing gov't beauracracies are your ideas of a better world.