Republicans are Socialists Too

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The big deal is that Republicans like the Dems support these socialist programs.

This from the Republican platform:

Social Security
We are committed to putting Social Security on a
sound fiscal basis. Our society faces a profound
demographic shift over the next twenty-five years,
from today’s ratio of 3.3 workers for every retiree to
only 2.1 workers by 2034. Under the current system,
younger workers will not be able to depend on Social
Security as part of their retirement plan. We believe
the solution should give workers control over, and a
fair return on, their contributions. No changes in the
system should adversely affect any current or nearretiree.
Comprehensive reform should include the
opportunity to freely choose to create your own personal
investment accounts which are distinct from
and supplemental to the overall Social Security system.
Medicare and Medicaid
As discussed in the health care section of this
document, we commit to revive Medicare by rewarding
quality care, promoting competition, eliminating
waste, fraud, and abuse, and giving patients and
providers control over treatment options. We envision
a new Medicaid partnership with the states,
improving public health through flexibility and innovation.

http://www.gop.com/pdf/PlatformFINAL_WithCover.pdf

While social security sounds like, and has become, a socialist hand out you need to do more research. it was actually one of FDR LESS socialist innovations. While it was still a case of Govt exceeding it's enumerated powers it was far less egregious than the uninformed portray it.
Any one who has actually read up on it knows it was a Voluntary, Participant funded savings plan. The fore runner of the IRA's and 401k's. Workers who wished to participate paid a small portion of their pay into a trust fund where it would draw interest, just like company pension funds, a US workers pension fund. This Trust fund was like all other trust funds making plenty of money and would still have ample funds to cover all costs the original plan would have been expected to pay even WITH the baby boomers.
But Johnson needed to fund his "Great Society" welfare give away plan so he stole our money, sort of like what Jimmy Hoffa went to prison for doing to the Teamsters fund, the difference being that Hoffa actually made a profit.