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but if you use China and the U.S.S.R. as examples of socialism, you can see how it's easier said than done. In a very idealistic sense, socialism sounds great -- but there's no practical way to implement its tenets. In practice, socialism is a far better tool for those who seek to control us than capitalism is. In the U.S.S.R. you had people rioting in the street over loaves of bread, in the PRC you have the most inefficient country imaginable. Internal corruption in these countries was/is higher in those countries than it ever was here. Additionally, people as individuals had far fewer "rights" than we have.

I expect there to be some form of nat'l health insurance within the next 5-10 years anyways.

thanks for the thoughtful response,
true, ideally socialism>capitalism for masses...
but capitalism, in its IDEAL form, also produces a population happily ignorant.
they have FALSE freedoms and are actually stopped from growing spirtually.
Materialism leads to disappointment, never being satisfied, and allows a few select to get ahead, yet the masses don't realize it's capitalism oppressing them. THEREFORE, capitalism is a hidden path to destruction yet its own people would swear by it.
Today, we don't have ideal Socialism, but we have an ideal Capitalistic Society, America.