I've read your posts with great interest. I hope that you post more often. Your intellect is obvious. The efficiency of the market place is as close to perfect as you can get. Capitalism must have rules that are followed however, and Capitalism must adequately reward those who follow its rules. Governments that give overwhelming advantages to established oligarchies cannot be tolerated. Those advantages are in conflict with the concept of Democracy.

Socialism and it's ugly brother communism are grossly inefficient.

Capitalism with a good set of rules that are enforced. That's the answer. Corporations become too powerful when they can sue innovators out of existence. One example is a woman who invented a way to transmit electricity through the air by converting the electricity to sound above our hearing range and crystals that reconvert the sound back into electricity. She patented the process but refused to license the process out to major companies. The companies threatened to bury her in litigation. They shouldn't be able to do that because it stifles innovation.

Removing the cap on Social Security withholding, negotiating with drug companies for better prices and letting only the tax cuts for the wealthy expire next year will go a long way in helping lower the deficit. And for God's sake lets not fall victim to another scam war like Iraq.