We know centrally-planned, collective systems do not provide adequate or sustainable levels of food or shelter to the people within them.
Hunger is still the world's number one killer of people.
It doesn't seem to matter whether the system is political or economic, communist or corporate, socialistic or monopoly, history proves power and control in the hands of a few delivers human tragedy. Only the free democratic, independent and diversified systems based on a civilized form of capitalism have avoided mass human hardship and despair. Low-cost and efficient farm families are being driven from their land. These are the same families creating the very basis of the wealth that drives the nation's economy. They are being cheated out of a fair price for what they produce, with many being forced to the welfare rolls.