>>7
I do understand what you are saying, I think. As an American, with jobs flowing overseas (from companies like Nike who won't put factories here) to China and other 3rd world countries at an absolutely alarming rate, and the unemployment rates in my area skyrocketing, while Bush runs up the Federal deficit, well... it's a pretty bleak outlook.
I think the government should try to find ways to keep our economy running here at home, not propping up progs. like welfare and soc.sec. There's no need for them if you have a good job. Jobs are what we need, and not jobs at McD's flipping burgers.
That said, it is not Capitalism that I have a problem with, but global capitalism. And, yes, you should read all the pro-market literature before you diss the market.
Another view of things - even in the worst situation possible, in which I wouldn't be able to have a job at all, there's nothing stopping me from going out and living on my own, in a self-sustaining, and self-reliant sort of way, like Americans of the past did. A trusty rifle for hunting, and a field for crops.
That said, I think the solution isn't more programs, which the democrats are so adamant about propping up, but rather a way to reign in the global economy, so it can't abuse labor as it does now, but that we would still have a relatively free society, within the borders of said country.