Do you prefer Socialism or Capitalism? Explain.?

Capitalism. It isn't even close. There's no morality to forcing one person to pay for another person's stuff. Moreover, capitalism has raised billions of people out of poverty in the past few decades; socialism in small doses limits wealth, and in purer forms spreads misery, poverty and often death.

Socialism appeared to have died about the turn of the century, having been an abject failure. Increased wealth from capitalism has led to enough wealth to allow people to dabble in the idea of socialism once again.

Democratic socialism, which is working well all over the world.

Socialism always fails, with no exceptions, in 60 years unless they turn to capitalism or cannibalize their neighbors.

THOUSANDS of experiments in socialism, big and small, have been conducted throughout the world.

It's an ethically bankrupt 19th Century ideology.

It has no practical use in reality.

Sweet dream, but badly flawed.

A mixture is needed for a healthy economy, competition works very well in a competitive environment. It does not work for healthcare.

Studies show that despite the greater public access to sound health information, market forces . . . do not exert sufficient influence over the quality of health services."

Market forces may work well to do many things, but creating a sustainable, affordable health care system does not appear to be one of them.

In other industries, competition works because comparison shoppers reward quality at a lower price. But health care is not like any other industry. When a "consumer" (a.k.a., a patient) is dying of cancer, he is probably not hunting for a bargain — even if he is paying 20 percent of the cost out of his own pocket. Most cancer patients will pony up their share of the $50,000 for a drug that extends life by only five months, even if it means mortgaging their home.

More importantly, even if a patient wants to compare cost and quality, how is he going to go about doing it? As anyone who has ever been seriously ill knows, the more you learn about the pros and cons of various bleeding-edge treatments, the less certain you are likely to be as to which might be best for you. Part of the problem is that every human body is unique: What works for one patient may not work for another. And frequently, doctors cannot explain why.

The ambiguity that haunts health care can make it extraordinarily difficult to evaluate health care products and treatments.

http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2007/2/why-...

You can't comparison shop for healthcare. Doctors and hospitals don't have price lists.

Single-payer health care is not socialized medicine. It's a system in which one institution purchases all, or in reality, most, of the care. But the payer does not own the doctors or the hospitals or the nurses or the MRI scanners. Medicare is an example of a mostly single-payer system, as is France. Both of these systems have private insurers to choose from, but the government is the dominant purchaser. (As an aside here, unlike in socialized medicine, "single-payer health care" has nothing in particular to do with the government. The state might be the single payer. But if Aetna managed to wrest 100 percent of the health insurance market, then it would be the single payer. The term refers to market share, not federal control.)

http://www.newsweek.com/socialized-medicine-vs-sin...

We need single payer.

75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

Well I hate to be the one to tell you, but Socialism, which you have been told to fear all your life, is responsible for all this...

1. The Military/Defense - The United States military is the largest and most funded socialist program in the world. It operates thanks to our taxpayer dollars and protects the country as a whole. From the richest citizens to the homeless who sleep under the bridge. We are all protected by our military whether we pay taxes or not. This is complete socialism.

2. Highways/Roads - Those roads and highways you drive on every single day are completely taxpayer funded. Your tax dollars are used to maintain, expand, and preserve our highways and roads for every one's use. President Eisenhower was inspired by Germany's autobahn and implemented the idea right here in America. That's right, a republican president created our taxpayer funded, national highway system. This was a different time, before the republican party came down with a vicious case of rabies that never went away.

3. Public Libraries - Yes. That place where you go to check out books from conservative authors telling you how horrible socialism is, is in fact socialism. Libraries are taxpayer funded. You pay a few bucks to get a library card and you can read books for free for the rest of your life.

4. Police - Ever had a situation where you had to call the police? Then you have used a taxpayer funded socialist program. Anyone can call the police whether they pay taxes or not. They are there to protect and serve the community, not individuals. This is complete socialism on a state level, but still socialism all the same. Would you rather have to swipe your credit card before the police will help you?

5. Fire Dept. - Hopefully you have never had a fire in your home. But if you have, you probably called your local taxpayer-funded fire department to put the fire out. Like police, this is state socialism. You tax dollars are used to rescue your entire community in case of a fire. It use to be set up where you would pay a fee every month to the fire dept. for their service. If you didn't pay, they let your house burn down. Sadly, a man from Tennessee had this exact situation happen to him in 2011 because he didn't pay his $75.00 fee. I guess that small town in Tennessee would rather let people's houses burn down that resort to evil socialism. So don't take for granted the fact that you have a 24/7 fire dept. to put out your burning home thanks to socialism.

See more at

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/29/1078852/-7...

Interesting question. Capitalism, no doubt. Socialism is just talk given to lazy,poor people. The truth is Karl Marx was a loser who couldn't get a job so he justvwrote a bunch of books bitching about how he got left behind. Socialism is impossible to maintain economically speaking. Read Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer if you want to find out more about an economic and political system that actually works.

There is no pure form of any system. I prefer a mixed economy that looks towards the individual first, before the government to solve problems.

Socialism works better when your people are motivated and United and there is a great leader in power. Capitalism works better for the U.S. in its current state, but I think socialism has more upside

I prefer a mixture of both.Socialism is not bad as greedy conservatives make it out to be.

Mormon cooperative economics.

Let's see-

Should I work for 100 people's entitlements?

or one guy's riches...

I pick A.

If I can't decide, I'm an AMERICAN!