I am not trying to be nasty but I really see some kind of socialist talking when they talk about SS, Medicare, highways and public schools as if they were bad and wrong. I will have to say that I don't see you as anything but some kind of socialist from that talk. You surely aren't old enough to be on SS yet and that makes you too young to be collecting Medicare. You talk about those things as if they were socialist programs. I paid into Social Security from the time I was 12 years old so I don't see it as socialist except that FDR pushed it along with all kinds of other socialist programs. Those programs were necessary, at the time, and couldn't have worked the way SS has. For instance, CCC and other working programs for men without jobs that couldn't force men to pay into it in order to collect.

I take it that you don't know much about Medicare in that you don't know who pays into it and for how long. I paid into Medicare from its inception and am still having just over $100 monthly through deductions from my SS check. Yep, both programs do appear to be nothing but socialist programs but each of us pays into it for life. It sure is handy to have around though like when you have to have serious surgeries to stay around.

What would our nation be like if we didn't have the highway system we have? There would be very little trade as we know it and so much would be seriously different. I don't think some people really understand socialism but do like to use the examples you do.