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We may agree that the USSR failed, but that was only one type of socialism (communism) among many other types of socialism. This would be like using as an example that bridges always fail when you have only a very few of one type that have failed (I would not have used such a broad term as socialism due to the inability to condemn the whole with only evidence of such limited nature, but that is the term you picked). The type most often used in Europe and America is democratic socialism. That seems to be a roaring success in much of Europe and elsewhere. Any further evidence condemning socialism as a whole?

And, I cannot address the Katrina/New Orleans point, as I cannot find any indication that it was caused by, or suffered from any "socialism" that is substantially different than the socialism that is practiced all though the US. Would you please be kind as to enlighten us on this aspect of the Katrina/New Orleans disaster?