Al, you forgot to mention, that under a communist regime if you have more than one house, you are allowed to keep one and the Government takes all the other ones, you can not own your own business, you have to work for the Government, at minimum wages (of course), Saturdays, you HAVE to work all day (voluntary) for Government functions, or you can loose your job, and I can go on an on and on.
I lived in Cuba under a Socialist and Communist Regime, and you don't have to shift forward 50 years, this still happen in Cuba today, and in some Countries around the World.
Is the Socialism is so good, why hundreds of thousand of people living on those countries risk their live to leave, as I did 30 years ago, looking for Freedom and Democracy?
I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN