This fear of socialism is misguided. I have no problem with the government taking action so long as the action makes sense. I am pleased when the government catches criminals or wages a just war or pays my medical bills in part through Medicare. At the moment I disagree with Obamacare not because the government is running it but because itis immensely comlicated and much too expensive. All of these folks who are screaming about the horrors of socialism are the first ones to call the government for help when they have a problem. We have alawys had a part “socialist” society and part private. Remember that George Washington’s army at Valley Forge and at Yorktown was a socialist organization in the sense that some of the loonies are complaining about socialism now.