Who should you believe?

With the expansion of government and the promise of more, including Health care and possibly banks.  We keep moving away from being a prosperous Capitalist nation and moving to a poor socialist one.  People are warning the administration, but who should you believe?

How about Vladamir Putin?  “In the 20th. century, the Soviet Union made the state’s role absolute."  “In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.” “Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state.”[Snip.]