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I've never been to a socialist party meeeting, so I don't know.
Capitalism is America's religion.
Quality of life is not heard in America. Because Americans don't value quality of life. Americans are materialistic and SUPERficial, if any American knows what that word means.
Turn on your TV, surf the channels...this is what Americans call culture.
Americans are only worth the materialism they own. They don't have much else going for them. Americans define everything in financial terms. The reason for living is to earn money, which can be used to earn yet more money.
Try this: ask an American what he/she does with his/her brain that is not job connected.
Sad, isn't it. You must run with a really sad crowd to have such opinions.
Your comments don't describe my life or my friends.
While every person in the household has their own car, talking on their smartphones, typing on their laptops, playing their videogames. Boy, they gots it rough.
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!...Perhaps you'd like to rethink CHINA.. And....The Soviet Union still exists....Germany is one country now and North Korea still survives as well.
I agree with the OP......Capitalism is too greed orientated and needs to be regulated by the government. Only problem with that is ......big business owns our government through lobbyists. And Republicans favoring big business is a given.
Example....ordinary people taking government money equates to "won't work" welfare. But when a business takes government money it's just a "nice sounding" subsidy.. Double standards and propaganda!
The reason that corporations have taken over is that PEOPLE HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO. They'd rather sit in front of their big screen TV's and watch 200 channels of digital cable to understand what is REALLY going on in the economy, the financial world or the government.
There is nothing less risky than depending on a employer to hand you a paycheck. The reason that middle class is feeling the greatest pain in this recession is that as a wage earner you are now in competition with wage earners around the world for the skills and services that are wanted by corporations. If you can't compete in terms of offering lower cost or higher value then chances are you job is going to be threatened.
Most people WILLINGLY accept being part of a system where as a wage earner you are a COMMODITY. At the same time they put themselves in a system where they go into debt in order to get an education, and other significant purchases. At the same time aside from the occasional retirement account very few people investment of use the world financial markets as an additional source of income.
Yes, you probably are older than I. However, I can read and have read a little history here and there.......not to mention when I was in college. Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was a great success, by the way.
You know, the only people (as a group) I've ever heard consistently complain about and hate "liberalism" as much as you seem to, are the Cuban exiles. They just can't get over Castro. They just can't get over what they had to leave in Cuba, even though they, as a group, are quite successful here in the U.S.
Here's the irony as a group early Cuban immigrants received MORE GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE THAN OTHER IMMIGRANT GROUP IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY.
Most Cuban Americans that arrived in the United States initially came from Cuba's educated upper and middle classes. Between December 1960 and October 1962 more than 14,000 Cuban children arrived alone in the U.S. Their parents were afraid that their children were going to be sent to some Soviet bloc countries to be educated and they decided to send them to the States as soon as possible. This program was called Operation Pedro Pan (Operacion Pedro Pan). When the children arrived in Miami they were met by representatives of Catholic Charities and they were sent to live with relatives if they had any or were sent to foster homes, orphanages or boarding schools until their parents could leave Cuba. In order to provide aid to recently arrived Cuban immigrants, the United States Congress passed the Cuban Adjustment Act in 1966. The Cuban Refugee Program provided more than $1.3 billion of direct financial assistance. They also were eligible for public assistance, Medicare, free English courses, scholarships, and low-interest college loans. Some banks even pioneered loans for exiles who did not have collateral or credit but received help in getting a business loan. These loans enabled many Cuban Americans to secure funds and start up their own businesses.
I take it you don't like competition? "Competition breeds winners," as it says on someone's caption here on C-D (can't remember whose now). Competition makes people strive for better, work harder/smarter, outwit their opponents and make better products that are often cheaper (improved manufacturing, lowered costs, etc.). I don't see how anybody could think that's a bad thing. .
The answer is implicit in your post above.
"Competition makes people strive for better, work harder/smarter, outwit their opponents and..."
Implicit in the word "competition" is "opponents" one is competing against.
How could a philosophy that, by it's own admission, turns individuals into "opponents" be good for humanity or humanity's ultimate progress and survival? Capitalism's flaws are embedded in the very language its proponents freely choose to describe it.
If you're walking around thinking that the goal is for everybody to outwit each other and that human relationships are properly conducted based on a model of competition and opposing each others efforts at survival, as capitalists openly admit they do, you have lost the debate right there.
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. Double standards and propaganda!
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was a great success, by the way. 
