Neal Boortz writes (and I agree):

The current issue of Time calls Social Security the best social program ever. Sorry, they have it wrong. The best social program ever is a system of economic liberty featuring capitalism and free enterprise operating under a system based on the rule of law. No program, private or public, has ever done so much to raise so many from the depths of poverty and despair as has capitalism. When the government steps aside and lets free people react freely with one another, amazing things happen. It's really too bad that Americans have fallen out of love with freedom and so in love with government-provided security.

(All emphasis mine -ed.)

As someone else (who is much smarter than I) likes to say, and I am paraphrasing, "all you need to know about this country, the principles that this country was founded upon and why it has accomplished so much in a relatively short period of time, and makes it so unique, and such a great country, can be summed up in three words - and they can be found on our coins: liberty,e pluribus unum, and in God We Trust.