It has been quite clear for a long time that the countries that do best are the ones that strike a balance between socialism and capitalism. A free market economy is good, but without government companies and moderate regulation of privite companies, there will be little success in helping the poor. Government is there to work for the people, giving privite companies some of this responsibility usual ends up in disaster.

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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " — John Stuart Mill