Look again folks all your socialist states are going broke.
Most, if not all, of those countries are capitalist/socialist hybrids. And most of the capitalist systems are going broke as well, if you didn't hear about the bailouts.
EDIT: And sorry for being a Debbie Downer over here, but to my understanding banking, subsidies and bailouts are all socialist actions. Bailouts are obviously a socialist tendency. We all know Big oil, Big agriculture, Big Pharmaceutical, Big housing ect. all get giant subsidies(that we pay for) and don't give anything back to the people really. They pollute and steal, fraudulent practices run rampant, and anything for a dollar is the tactic. Then banking, the most clever scheme every devised.(Watch a documentary called 'The Money Masters', it lays it out for all the skeptics out there.
They take your money into a pot, and use this pot to make investments. Not only that, they use fractional reserve banking to create money that doesn't exist, to give out loans they collect interest on. Now correct me if I am wrong, but that sounds like one big bullshit story.
Dude, the fed does what every central bank in every developed country does. They buy and sell bonds from to control the money supply and prevent inflation when the economy is running hot and encourage cheap credit when things aren't looking so great....it's not a conspiracy. It's a central banking system. Without it we would have much more frequent market crashes and the business cycle would be much more brutal.
Not just the central bank, money in general. Every country has a central bank, but no gold standard, hmmm... really hard to figure out. If you had no money then all that needs to be traded are real items, and real work. Money is the control structure and the bankers are the emperors. Because sure if there wasn't a central bank, we would have more market crashes, but doesn't that scream conspiracy. To keep themselves in power, they keep everyone else running on that hamster wheel.
Business is a fascism in most senses of the word. I keep saying this, no money, no property, infinite possibilities.
No money means; the people that have it easy would have to work, and the people who work hard would catch a break. This isn't socialism, this is egalitarianism. No hierarchy, no monetary trade, no ultimate control. Everyone works together, to the best of their abilities, to create a better time for everyone.
The way money circulates, money is only as valuable as the products being pushed out of your country, so to spend your money in any real sense would require working even harder, to reap what you sow(so to speak).
Peace