It seems like the blustering politicians have been complaining a lot about economic systems lately. They brand people inappropriately (and for ill intent) as Socialists, and they laud Capitalism as if it was a gift from God to them.
In the body of this diary I lay out why both systems suck. Before you read on, take it on my word that I prefer a Capitalist system. If the two systems are polar opposites (pure socialism=0 and pure capitalism=1) then I like my economy at about the 0.75 to 0.8 mix.
I don't think any reasonable person wants either of them in their pure form. Hell, even President Ronald Reagan (the deity of the dying GOP) wasn't for pure capitalism. He used regulation as a weapon to kill the USSR. He got a 30 year contract with middle-eastern oil producers to hold the barrel prices down to where the USSR couldn't make a profit. They died from a negative cash flow. That wasn't free market capitalism on our part, it was international collusion. Anybody that complains about free trade or "Made in China" stickers is also against pure capitalism.
