No spin on my part John. I was mainly reacting to your declaration "...and we boast being world leaders?"

If you believe there is a better system to govern a nation of free people, and that system is currently being used somewhere else on this planet, please point me to it.

Socialism doesn't work, no matter how long the French might try to make it work. Marxism is close enough to socialism to be the same thing and would have the same end results. Too each...