Check your party Ray, Bush GREW the size of the Government by a record setting rate, and handed out corporate "welfare" at a record rate as well.
The difference being mainly that Republicans hand the money out to big business and they in turn stick it to the working man by shipping their jobs over seas, or hiring illegal aliens to drive down the price of labor in general, until the middle class has almost evaporated. The evaporation of the middle class causes what? It causes a crash in the housing market because there are less people earning middle class incomes and able to afford their own homes. After the devastation caused by "trickle ON economics" a Democrat President has to rebuild the battered nation. Redirection of the government assistance from corporations and the ultra rich to the low and middle class citizens is what it takes to bring a country back from such a crisis. Your opinion is that this is socialism, but what about corporate bailouts? What about fire departments, police, schools, is this all socialism? We do not live in a purely capitalistic system, so your cries of socialism are completely out of place...
Irie