Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism

This makes me sick to my stomach. How can anyone in America that sits in the comfort of their home watching TV from their easy chair every say that socialism is better than capitalism? How many of these idiots know anything about what it is like to be in a socialist country? This is a kick in the crotch to all the millions of American who have given their lives to provide the freedom Americans enjoy right now and 33% of us apparently take for granted.

Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.

Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.

Investors by a 5-to-1 margin choose capitalism. As for those who do not invest, 40% say capitalism is better while 25% prefer socialism.

There is a partisan gap as well. Republicans - by an 11-to-1 margin - favor capitalism. Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism. As for those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.

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The question posed by Rasmussen Reports did not define either capitalism or socialism

It is interesting to compare the new results to an earlier survey in which 70% of Americans prefer a free-market economy. The fact that a “free-market economyâ€

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How can anyone in America that sits in the comfort of their home watching TV from their easy chair every say that socialism is better than capitalism?

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I'm not surprised, especially when you consider the tens of millions of poor immigrants (illegal and legal) we've allowed into this country over the last decade. IMO, America is changing for the worse and we have our open borders and pandering politicians to thank for it.

The title of the article is very misleading. The truth lies here:

[quote]The question posed by Rasmussen Reports did not define either capitalism or socialism

It is interesting to compare the new results to an earlier survey in which 70% of Americans prefer a free-market economy. [b]The fact that a “free-market economyâ€

Well, this is certainly comforting. I wonder what the results would be if they did a poll regarding Communism!?

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The dumbing down of America effort.....results are coming in! Apparently it was a bigger success than anyone ever expected, although I'm sure there are millions in this country who are not surprised, but deeply, deeply saddened TO SAY THE LEAST. :? 8O

America cannot take care of 7 billion people in the world with world Socialism?

Close our borders, deport all undocumented immigrants, enforce immigration laws, use the tools of E-Verify and 287g Program everywhere in the US, and punish as a felony the lack of checking immigrants.

Our government has taken America from a black and white conflict into an undocumented immigrant and American Citizen conflict. The United States may not survive this invasion of immigrants.

Having a conflict is a money maker for our government officials.

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I'm not surprised, especially when you consider the tens of millions of poor immigrants (illegal and legal) we've allowed into this country over the last decade. IMO, America is changing for the worse and we have our open borders and pandering politicians to thank for it.

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MW, in all honesty, I have to agree with you, that this is the largest factor regarding what is happening to America, our country.

The massive numbers of immigration during the past 20 years have caused dramatic changes in the philosophy of our country. They don't understand that the country they wanted to emigrate to was built on capitalism and the country they are turning our nation into is the result of what they brought with them which is the country they left.

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And it's not to say that we shouldn't bring poor people in, because I think that we should, it's only fair and right that we do, but we never made assimilation the important and critical factor that it is in this.

We just let the assimilation part slide in order to be politically correct. We just smiled and looked the other way.

So now we have this.

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MW, in all honesty, I have to agree with you, that this is the largest factor regarding what is happening to America, our country.

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Exactly. Not to mention, the capitalism we have experienced in the past few years isn't true capitalism either. More and more, they have kept people out of being able to work thier way up. Not to mention just willy-nilly breaking and changing the rules. I don't think the whole idea of "free trade" is true capitalism with all abiding by the same rules and standards. Maybe I'm wrong, but it took a shift to the extreem wrong side as well, to where if people see that as what it is, then heck no, who wants Maldoffs running around? Maybe pure socialism might seem better, but as we know, it has it's extreem sides as well.

Unfortunatly the vast majority of our newest immigrants, legal and illegal, haven't experience this country in it's true form. They have come from extreeme poverty and 3rd worlds to where it appears some think America has had it too good for too long and want their turn at it. It's obvious many also have some false pre-conceptions of what being an American is, or that somehow wealth and riches and such was handed to you easily. They have been given breaks and advantages in some cases, citizens don't get....and didn't get in the past.

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And it's not to say that we shouldn't bring poor people in, because I think that we should, it's only fair and right that we do, but we never made assimilation the important and critical factor that it is in this.

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We have brought poor in all along. The difference is, there wasn't welfare and an attitude that "I'm in America now....give it to me."

I believe when it changed from comming to America to be free and comming to America to get money....is when things turned sour. Money was a side benefit of being free. Money doesn't make you free.

Personally,I think it's time to stop bringing poor and rich in. We have more people than we can sustain due to overpopulation. We need to do as Roy Beck suggests and return our immigration numbers back to the 1970 levels. Then we need to deport all illegal aliens with their families intact, no child left behind, then secure the borders so this travesty never happens again, then we need to protect our trade, pass the FairTax, drill baby drill, rebuild our economy, pay off our national and personal debts, rebuild American wealth for our citizens, businesses and our posterity, and then in 20 years re-evaluate and see how we're doing.

Then if it looks like we need more people well, then, increase the legal immigration numbers some at that time if the situation truly warrants it and we have the natural resources such as food, water, land and renewable energy to support additional foreign population in the United States.

To solve hunger in other countries requires teaching them about birth control and family planning and showing them how to build and protect a viable economy within their own countries that supports their population.

I think that the poll should describe what Democrary, Socialism and Communism is and then poll people about their preferences.

It is easy for people that have lived in a Democracy to talk about Socialism but another thing to live under it.

Interestingly the people that support Socialism seem to be the poor because everyone gives to them and/or the very rich, because they financially profit as they determine where all the people’s money will go and whoever controls the money controls the people.

Some examples of Socialism that turns into Communism: If you go to college and work your tail off to become a medical doctor, and you work 14 hours a day, you will make the same amount of money as an illegal that sits home and collects welfare. But, you still have to pay back student loans. What is the incentive to better yourself?

Democracy is not a perfect system either; we have seen how corruption and greed can over turn it. We aren't suffering because Democracy doesn't work, we are suffering because the elites found and abused the loop holes in the system.

An aside, I had to laugh ( in a sad way) at some of the stupid women that were praising and applauding a Middle Eastern dictator that came to speak at a liberal idiot college in NYC about a year ago. These same people literally complained and attempted physical harm to a representative of one of the Border groups. Ironically, if these very same stupid college women lived in this dictator’s country, they would be forced to wear a full burka, and they would not even been allowed to go to college. They would be in arranged marriages and their husbands would have complete control over them and he could even kill them with no legal consequence if he felt like it. In fact, the government I am referring to, actually promotes teaching men how to hit their wives without messing up her face. The husband can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce theeâ€

Great post ELE, and I agree 100%.

ELE:: Right On!

ELE...really, great post.

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Some examples of Socialism that turns into Communism: If you go to college and work your tail off to become a medical doctor, and you work 14 hours a day, you will make the same amount of money as an illegal that sits home and collects welfare. But, you still have to pay back student loans. What is the incentive to better yourself?

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I remember talking about that in school. Russia I think, where physicians and such were not viewed as anything better or worth more than the garbage collector. Back then I agreed because I don't think a person is better or worse dependant on what they do. I cringe at times to think some people get paid millions for basically nothing while others bust their humps for crumbs. All are needed and necessary for a country or community to survive. The problem was just money being the deciding factor of who's better and who's worse.....and watching some like movie stars be addicts and drunks and criminals and getting paid massive amounts of money while a good honest person wasn't, and if they did mess up, they were pretty much messed up for good. Or hows come a government official can get such a powerful job, making decisions affecting millions of lives, with a criminal record, but the average Joe is doomed to low level earnings because his mistake follows him forever. I still think that way I guess for alot of things. But that is my liberal segment shining, I figure if there's standards, it should apply to everyone, and what you do or how much money you have shouldn't give you an edge others don't have. Maybe liberal isn't the right word either...it's just what they said I was. I remember them taking kids and then deciding who would get an education and who wouldn't. Who was worth promoting and who wasn't as a child....depending on what your natural talents were. It does I suppose help some, but I'm sure it killed alot of potential of others. I just remember one olympic star back then....taken from her family and barely allowed to see them.....but pushed to extreems to perform or else her family would pay. That kills the good as well. I can't remember if she defected or not.....but sure wouldn't blame her.

I just know this country wouldn't have come to existance if those other things worked. We didn't develope because everything was set up and ready and we waltzed in and made millions. People came here with no guarentees and nothing to protect them.....anything was better than where they came from and fought like heck to never go back to that.

Wasn't there some president that said capitalism doesn't work without a moral center? Without morals you create laws. I can't think of too many honest business owners who would sell their work force to poverty while they collect more money than could ever spend.