Piers, I would suggest you live in China or Cuba

Socialism has never cured humanity. The US is not perfect, but it's capitalism provide people with opportunity to rise from the pack and to excell from the morbid existance that has always been found in socialistic circumstances.

I still stay the biggest proponents of socialism especially here are the ones who are the biggest failures at making it in their capitalistic societies. Maybe they weren't lucky, or maybe they spend too much time criticizing a system instead of trying to make it work for them. But that is the left-wing liberal way. Bitch, moan, hand-wring, anger, disatisfcation with those who make it work for themselves.