I find it hard to justify this reticence towards socialist public welfare programs is based solely on defending the populace from government excess.
I understand that we had that whole thing with communism a few years back, but government can never be a striation of whites and blacks precisely columnised into easily digestible wrongs and rights.
It's far more logical to assume this laissez-faire attitude is motivated mainly by the concept of centralizing power in the hands of an elite sub-stratum (man lot of geoligical metaphors in this post) of the population. Which is then sold to the powerless on the back of such quaint and wholesome concepts as "socialism is evil" and "Jesus hates fags."
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