Why would it be bad if the United States actually did have socialistic welfare-state policies?

[justmeish]

I could ramble on for hours about all of the reasons socialism is wrong.

Put all of the programs aside for second. Some are necessary, and some are not. I think people first need to remind themselves just who it is taking everyone's hard earned money and deciding where it should be spent. It's the government. First of all, the government has proved itself incapable of spending money wisely. Why would they? They're not the ones who earned the money, after all. They're the ones who steal it. And stealing is wrong. I don't care how much the goverment says it knows better than everyone else where money should go, it doesn't change the fact it is not their money to be spending on whatever they please.

People talk about how private businesses are so evil because they are out to make money. Well, duh, of course they're out to make money. That's what a business does. In what way does anyone have the right to say they deserve some of that money? They don't. Not when they have every opportunity to get off their ass and get it themselves. If they're too lazy to go back to school, too scared to take the risk of taking out a loan, or are simply in a rough spot because they popped out three kids before thinking... doesn't give them the right to use the power of government to take what they have not earned themselves. Hey, my life stinks when it comes to money. But at least I'm mature enough to say I know that I am where I am because of the choices I've made, and I know that I don't have the right to take from those who are better off.

And the government does not care about making money like a business does when they run things themselves. They have no problem wasting it all away on BS because they know all they have to do is turn around and steal more. Take any private business and compare it to a government run business. Almost always you will find the private business is not only a better business to its customers, and is run far more efficiently, but the private business actually has to answer to the governments officials when they do something wrong. Hence the reason you see oil executives pretty much on trial in front of their government, while businesses like Fannie and Freddie don't have to answer to anyone because they are the government. And the government thinks it is god. The government thinks it has every right to steal its citizens money and choose where its citizens money should go, and the only time they are held responsible is if one party or the other decides it wants to gain some political points against the other.

Let's not even go into the corruption there. All the money they waste on buying votes via the lobbyists.

I'm going to end up writing so much it wont fit in my answer. So I'll say this. The government has certain responsibilites when it comes to its citizens. The most important being the security of its country, and after that upholding the law. Other than that, yes, there are necessities that they should have the right to spend money on. Things like sewage systems, roads and bridges, schools, court houses, etc, etc. To me child protective services falls under this category.

Social security, on the other hand, never should have came about. Give a greedy entity money, and the system we have today is what you're going to get almost every time. Intentions, quite frankly, should not count when it comes to government. People need to learn to be responsible for themselves. If they don't, and they make their government responsible for them instead, they might as well be giving their freedom up in order to do so. Because now most people don't save for retirement, so their security depends on the government. And we want to do the same with health care? Where does it end? How long is it going to take people to wake up and realize that the person who has the power is the person who controls your life? And why on earth, with so much evidence in front of us, would we think the government deserves that responsibility?