no!... maybe a few steps back from the total Capitalism that managed to f*ck it up again and again and again

Yeah, sure, whatever makes you feel better. And I suppose because we used to treat minorities and women horribly meant that we were a bigoted nation?

Not yet. the fucking capitalists are puting up a fight...but dont wory we will be soon enough...and theres not one thing the greedy Capitalists can do to stop it...HA HA HA HA. The dems have a majority in both houses, as long as they stic together the money grubbing republipukes are going to get nowhere thankfully.

Yeah, I socialize all day long.

Not yet but give the 'o'man room and he will have all you Liberals eating out of the goverments hand. GO REPUBLICANS GO!!!!!

Why do you keep choosing between one extreme or another. Can't you accept a combination?

not yet. give Obama more time...:(

america is a one of kind "being" taking from all civilizations. i for am extremely amazed with our society. we may be disliked by the world right now for our recent blunders, but everyone is always looking to see what we are up to. i have traveled the world and for me the is only one place i feel at home, and that's right here in our unique country.

we are a hybrid nation.. we do what works.. maybe not what is best for you but im sure its working for someone.. works well for banks.

NO! for the millionth time we are not socialist, just because we have to regulate our economy so it doesn't fail, doesn't make us socialist. and if i had a dollar for every 'are we socialist' question on AB i would have enough to fund healthcare

Yes, it is and do you know what gave it away? That picture on Ho Chi Ming hanging in the Oval Office! Now, can you please quit this stupid shit already? If you're gonna continue harping on this crap, at least, go do on reading and learn what Socialist mean

No, but it sure could use a little more socialism.

no, i believe a little socialism is good in a country, basically, im fine with how canada is, but not so much to be some communist regime like the soviet union was.

We have a corporate capitalist system supported by the federal government. Basically, when the Great Depression hit in the 1930s the government stepped in to promote properity through large scale government spending. WW II really got us out of the depression with massive federal outlays. At the end of WW II the Cold War rescued the economy with the U.S. government spending for defense on a massive scale, and getting into non-defense areas to keep business prosperous and consumers with money in their pockets. Today, with the collapse of the banking and financial system the U.S. government stepped in to bail out the banks and financial institutions to foster loans and keep businesses profitable. We have not had a purely capitalist system since the 19th Century. In the early part of the 20th century the government stepped in to outlaw monopolies through anti-trust laws, create a central banking system in the Federal Reserve, adopt laws to protect workers and consumers, and adopt the 16th amendment by taxing income to prevent all the wealth from ending up in a few hands and creating dynasties. We have also a social welfare system that began with the advent of Social Security, followed by Medicare, and now health care. We have essentially a mixed capitalist system. The U.S. can hardly be called socialist with the great dispartiy in wealth between the rich and poor and the ability of corporate boards to award business executives billions in bonuses, even when they drive their companies into the ground.

No, never

No way. You don't even have universal health care, and from what I hear your public school system still sucks. So, there's a long way to go yet.

time will tell.we all will see a great nation come to ?

America has a lot of capitalist and socialist ideas trying to exist together at the same time, like usual. I often don't know what America is trying to be.

We're still pretty much a capitalist society of consumers as we have been since the 80s.

I don't think so--not yet anyway. Socialism is not enacted when the government hands large amounts of money to the corporations. In Socialism the banking system, natural resources, and the rest of the economy are not run in order to make profits for the few, but rather democratically controlled by the people......at least in theory.

America is far from being a socialistic nation. I'm from the middle class and I'm sick of the upper class whining like little bitches everytime someone tries to even out the income distribution problem. U.S income is massively skewed. Just because the rich gets taxed an extra 1-2% surtax on millions/billions of dollars they start crying socialism. They cry over the fact because they have to go back to wiping their ass on Abraham Licoln's face instead of a crisp Benjamin Franklin. In my opinion, extreme capitalism is aristocracy in disguise. Give me billions of dollar, and I will seal my family's legacy. I will buy my children, and children's children into elite colleges. I will fund campaigns and buy myself a politician for a pet to have regulations and policies go my way. Everyone will desperately want to be my friend, and my connections are limitless. All my relatives will never have to work for success. It pisses me off that this generation of middle class workers in the private industry may never see retirement. Democracy is broken when you have highly educated, hard working individuals on the streets because the rich took uncalculated risks and destroyed the economy, or are working for a pittance because our wages aren't aligned with global markets. The working class deserve better.

Not even close. Wassamatta? Your gravy train not stopping at your station?

No, but it resembles a corrupt Communist regime in that there is a small elite class and a LOT of starving people with no health care that are struggling to make rent (or are homeless) and don't know where their next meal is coming from. SO I can see how you got the two confused. I noticed in another comment thread here that you reversed Left and Right as well. It makes me wonder how many anti-Obama people and other Conservatives and Republicans are from some sort of mirror universe that is totally detached from the reality that the other 6-billion-plus people on the Earth live in.

America, love it or leave it!

Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into a socialist nation in South America. I don't know of any socialist nations in Central America. I'm pretty sure there aren't any socialist nations in North America.

America is a very long way from being a socialist nation - relax.