I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Every other country on the earth operates on an either very high level of socialism, if not pure socialism and that includes both personal and business levels.

While we certainly have our breed of socialism here, where our policies depart from nearly every other country on earth, is that our government has specifically remained powerless to either direct or influence where our companies do business. While most other countries not only directly support their corporations to a much higher level, but in exchange for that..or just because they can...they direct their corporations to remain in country and by and large, the corporations have business practices that are in the best interest of their host country.

Because of this, as a country, we cannot compete against other nations, because we do not support our businesses and corporations to the same level they do...nor should we, theoretically, in perfect world.

The but world is not perfect. It is currently set up where the United States, it's great wealth and power aside, is at a tremendous competitive disadvantage with all other countries.

To make matters worse, our financial power and wealth is waning in a very big way. We may get lucky and other countries may wane at the same rate, leaving us poorer, but still at the top of the heap...or we may not. But the biggest problem of all, is that our industrial power, technology, information and to a large degree, our wealth, is being taken off shore by formerly American corporations and given to nations that are economically friendlier to those businesses, largely to due their more authoritarian approach to government and their use of their collective tax base to support businesses, obstensively, to promote the best interest of their country and citizens.

The U.S. is a free for all nation and when competing against either poor nations or pure communist nations as we have post World War Two, through the end of the 1980s, our system reigned supreme and did us fairly well. But communism has given way to a hybrid form of socialist/capitalism that almost all countries have adopted in one form or another and we simply cannot compete against that system at all...especially when our government takes no action to prevent or even discourage our own industry from launching out on their own as sovereign global corporations and fully embracing those socialist/capitalist economies based entirely on their own best interests with no consideration for America's best interest.

The solution..would have been not to engage other countries in such a way that encouraged the socialist/capitalist system and instead we should have fought communism right down to socialist form, but instead, when the Soviet Union collapsed, our war against communism/socialism completely collapsed as well and we embarked on a policy of engagement that was really nothing more than effort on our part to take advantage of semi-industrialized nations who could produce goods much cheaper and without regulation, but what we did is create a giant monster that is now become larger, more powerful and certainly wealthier than us..on a net level.

We created our own demise and we doomed the true free, democratic, capitalistic system we aspired to promote throughout the world all through the cold war.

So, America really has two choices at this point. Conform to the socialist/capitalistic system or die. I don't like either choice, believe me. But it's becoming clearer, especially in the wake of the current bail out bill and final collapse of our old pure capitalistic system, that we are going to conform to a new socialistic/capitalistic system and even worse, probably give up the last of our economic sovereignty and adhere to a new global central financial system that replaces the one that is currently collapsing.