last thing....

It's extremely easy to criticize capitalism/democracy from a socialist perspective, but it's hard to point to an alternative that has been proven to be superior. Surely the "solution" here is not in black and white form. In fact there are some attributes of our government/economy that are socialist in principle, and there are aspects of China's gov/economy that are capitalist. Man has been struggling for 10,000 years to find the best form of Government, and we're not there yet.