Socialism defined: "a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole." Source.

There has been a lot of whining and complaining by Republicans and conservatives about how Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to steal from you and "redistribute the wealth" and turn this former Constitutional republic into a Socialist country.

What those whiners and complainers have forgotten, mostly because they want to bring tyranny to this country wrapped in an American flag and carrying a cross, is that in many ways, the United States of America is already the United Socialist States of America.

Now, before those Republicans and other right-wingers get their undies bunched up, I will show the top ten ways we have come to live in the U.S.S.A.

1. Our American manufacturing and technology jobs have spread to Asia, Indonesia, and Mexico.
2. Our taxes and the blood of our own offspring have been spread all over the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, with plans to do it again in Iran, Syria, North Korea, and so on.
3. Our formerly living wages have been sent overseas with our jobs or depressed beyond recognition by the hiring of millions of illegal immigrants who will work for almost nothing.
4. Our savings and retirement accounts have been destroyed and given to the same people on Wall Street who are now profiting from the short market and bailouts.
5. Our involuntary taxes continue to be spread to other countries in the name of "foreign aid" even though we cannot afford to feed our own people.
6. Our health care costs now exceed our ability to pay for it, yet millions of illegal immigrants and other people who don't pay into the system get free or cut-rate medical care.
7. Our income has been given to oil companies, who continue to report record profits at our expense while still receiving corporate welfare subsidies.
8. Our children's financial future has already been mortgaged and given to wealthy individuals and grossly inefficient corporations, through an unpopular and unwanted Congressional bailout. Note that the bailouts resulted in the government acquiring private corporations, which is the very definition of Socialism.
9. Our money is devalued daily by the Federal Reserve, where the printing presses run continually with nothing to back it except the wages of average Americans, and which is owned almost entirely by private foreign banking corporations
10. The money that is "loaned" to the government by the private foreign banks results in new debt, which means that the interest payments that must be paid come straight out of the pockets of the American people in form of increasingly higher taxes.

The wealth of our country has already been taken from the producers and given to the non-producers. While the Republicans continue to claim that President Barack Obama wants to "take" our wealth and "redistribute" it, they have completely ignored what has taken place over the past 95 years and which has accelerated under the last eight years of Republican George W. Bush in the White House. Republican presidential candidate John Sidney McCain III, who has voted with Bush 90% of the time over the past nearly eight years has shown that he is going to continue the same policies.

There is only one candidate with nearly three decades of support for Socialist policies and that candidate is NOT Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

If you like Socialism, now that the past has been shown to you, you can cast your vote for McCain/Palin on November 4th. Otherwise, you have the chance to vote for a presidential candidate who has at least shown that he is willing to listen to us. That should give you at least some hope.

For those who still insist the United States is a capitalist system, let me ask you: how can you have a capitalist system without capital? The U.S. government and Wall Street have been operating in the red for years. Ownership of the capital that makes the U.S. capitalist has been transferred to foreign countries, like China.

So, no, more of the same is not going to help us dig out of this hole. McCain is McSame and will not be getting my vote.