sorry Deb but you forgot that many socialist countries have moved toward privatization, meaning that they are a mixed economy. Actually if you do a comparison of the United States with some of those "true socialist" countries you will find that were a lot closer to socialism than you may realizes and were mover closer.
Think about this, what's the one thing that separates us from many of those countries? The United State Constitution
Did you know that Obama believes that the Constitution is an imperfect document and it should be changed. hmm, pretty dangerous Marxist thoughts.
Obama on the Constitution, "the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties."