[when questioned about how his assertion that 95% of countries in the world are communist countries can be true when only 5 of them are]

What an idiotic statement, the world is dominated by communist countries regardless if you consider them socialist or not--they are communist. COMMUNISM is government OWNED and controlled even if the business actually has a 'real' owner--it is totally controlled by the state. Socialism is communism but allows private individuals to OWN those businesses even as they are still controlled by the 'state'--or national government as in Russia. ALL of the far east countries are dominated by socialism in one form or the other, European countries are socialist by their own social policies, muslim countries are religious dictatorships aka socialist, Sweden in a socialist country, Canada is a socialist country, as is for most part, the U.K. America has spent the last 100 years morphing into a socialist country under an ever growing federal bureaucracy and control. 100 years ago, the U.S. was a very successful nation WITHOUT INCOME TAXES and other huge bureaucratic programs instituted by progressives, specifically in the DemocRAT party with help from many GOP big government, big spending Republicans in Name Only RINO's. The original Social Security program was a RETIREMENT program instituted by DC, that was changed to a TAX by the DemocRAT controlled Congress and president LBJ--for all that huge amount of money invested in it. And Obama's "MYRA" retirement program he just announced at state of the union speech? The FIRST STEP in Washington DC government TAKING OVER 401K retirement accounts and pension plans. There's an estimated $5 TRILLION in money sitting in private plans and retirements that the FEDS will soon be after--promoting the "MYRA" program is first step to moving Americans into this government controlled retirement program that will eventually give them ACCESS TO YOUR MONEY--and YOU will get an IOU--just like the Social Security program where people living off SS payments are receiving monies earned by working Americans NOW, NOT from any money they invested years back--that money is GONE, long spent by DC. That's the FUTURE of the "MYRA" retirement program, institute it first, then require ALL Americans to invest in it. Private plans will be eliminated just as private insurance companies will be in next 10 years under Obamacare.