Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of

America? It must first be state that neither Canada nor the USA is considered a

socialist state. For the purpose of this project, a socialist state would be one

such as Greece was until the early 1990's; a country where the state owns all

forms of companies and/or businesses and offers practically every type of social

service known to modern governments. Since none of the two North American

countries that will be featured in this paper can accurately compare to the

above description, the paper will simply attempt to determine which of the two

has a higher degree of socialism when matched against each other following a

Before going any further, let's view the conceptual definitions to the key

elements of this paper. Socialism, as referred to throughout the text, can be

defined as follows: any of various social or political theories or movements in

which the common welfare is to be achieved through the establishment of a

socialist economic system. A socialist economic system can be defined as an

members of that community. In this economic layout the people will run the

Commissioners ( 5), a President and Vice-President, a Governor, a Lieutenant

After the tally of 99 percent of precincts, the Democratic Party stood at 49

support of diverse political views as well as a high level of public

In conclusion, the hypothesis must be accepted, as the research proves that Canada is indeed more socialist that the United States of America. Although America is relatively strong when it comes to education, Canada does indeed spend more social services than the United States of America does. Canada also has more state-owned corporations than does the United States of America. Since the US does not clearly come out ahead of Canada in any of the variables, we cannot claim is as being in the same league as Canada as far as socialism goes. We can however state that the United States offers more years of public education than Canada does, and that it spends approximately the same on income security. In fact, if the United States offered health care to all of its citizens like Canada does, it could be argued that both countries are very similar in terms of socialism, with Canada being the frontrunner. However that is not the case, and what the entire research came down to was t!

Board of Elections , the population of North Carolina elects members of the US House of Representatives (In North Carolina,12 members are elected), associate Justices of the Supreme Court (2), Judges of the Court of Appeals (5), District Attorneys (37), Judges of District Court (87), members of State Senate (50), members of the State House of

The second indicator for health care is the amount spent per person on health services. This is an area where the US is expected to perform poorly, as mentioned in the hypothesis, because so few Americans actually receive government-paid health care. In fact, according to the US Census Bureau any form of government-paid health care covers only 24.1 percent of the US population. Medicare covers 13.2 percent of the population, and Medicaid covers 10.2 percent while the remaining 3.1 percent are military personnel who receive basic military health benefits. According to the US Census Bureau , the three levels of government in the United States of America spent 40,168,000,000 dollars on 34,900.000 Americans in 1991, therefore spending 1147 US dollars per recipient. However, when divided by the total America population at the time, which was approximately 258,000,000 people, we see that a mere 156 US dollars was spent per citizen on heath care. Canada on the other hand offers heal!

system, as Canadians do not elect members of the Supreme Court, or even Senators. When we count the number of representatives who are elected by the population, it seems that the American political system is more democratic than the Canadian system, as it is clear that many important positions are chosen by the people in America and by the politicians in Canada. It is important however to note that the men and women who hold the most power of all in both countries, the members of cabinet, are named by the leading politician. In Canada these people must be chosen from the Legislative Assembly at the provincial level, and the House of Commons at the federal, therefore they were elected to represent the population . However, in the US the Governors and President may choose whomever they please as their cabinet , whether they were elected or not. Despite the previous fact, when looking at the democracy variable as a whole it must be acknowledged that the US

spent a total of 88,900,000,000 dollars on Income Security. When divided by the approximate population at the time, 29,500,000 people, it averages out to 3014 Canadian dollars per citizen. If that number is then multiplied that by .68 as the Canadian dollar was worth approximately 86 cents American at the time, we get 2050; the average spent per citizen in American dollars. The Unite

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