Ridiculous. 
Oh. Do you double dog dare me? I guess since you beat this dead horse so nicely, I'll take the other side of the argument you have framed for me.
America has tax-payer funded Social Security, unemployment, disability, WIC women infant children aid, public schools, housing subsidies, Obama phones, and grants for urine art.
In FY2014 the US spent over $2 Trillion on SS, Healthcare, and other entitlements.
We've spent 21 trillion on the "War on Poverty" since 1964. What is your point? Yes, we have F***ing socialists running through and through our government, it is what we are trying to fight. Well, at least
some of us are trying to fight it.
"what nation on the planet is less socialist than we?"
Maybe I'll answer your question with another question.
What nation spends less on social programs than the US?
The answer is all of them.
Are we now making Democrat style arguments? As a percentage of their GDP, all of them spend more. (except the impoverished ones, of course.) The fact that we have more money than do they has nothing to do with it. The only salient factor is what percentage of their income they spend on social programs. Your effort to say "all of them" is deliberately misleading.
Not sure what was the point of that silly adventure...unless you are looking for a nice place to get away from the USA and our rampant socialism.
If I knew of such a place I would go there. The USA represents the last bastion of sanity in the world, and it too is losing it's mind. Oddly enough, Russia seems to be heading in the opposite direction, but it has quite a ways to go before I would regard it as completely sane. Likewise I think the strong man concept of government is too heavily ingrained into the Russian psyche.
Might I suggest Zimbabwe. The have a nice strong man nationalist dictator...very little social spending at all...unless you count prison as social spending. Of course he's not to fond of white people, but hey! You take the good with the bad. But if Zimbabwe isn't you cup of tea try any nation with a dictator, king, or ayatollah and I'm sure you'll find they treat their poor like the scum they are.
What the
h3ll is wrong with you? Why are you advancing these false and misleading liberal arguments? Nobody said anything about treating the poor like scum, but unless you are an idiot, you have to recognize that our current system is about as wrong headed as it can possibly be.
People have grown up on welfare and they keep creating generation after generation that will live on the dole. This is not good for these people, and it is certainly not good for this nation.
Franklin had the absolute right of it 240 years ago.
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
And we have not even got to the point of discussing the fact that our "poverty programs" have not a D@mn thing to do with
helping people. Their sole purpose from inception to the present is to grab around 10 million votes for the Democrats, and for that task they have been wildly successful.
But for improving peoples lives? Complete and total failure. They've simply made people's lives worse, and not just the people for whom they were theoretically
helping. The welfare system has created massive ghettos of fatherless families which produce feral males that feed our crime sprees.
The people who are paying the bills to create all these unwanted children also have to deal with the offspring produced by such dysfunctional families robbing and murdering them. We pay to feed them, and then we end up paying to imprison them, and for no better purpose than to keep Democrats in power.
You have a very odd sort of world view for someone who patronizes a conservative website.
