I agree completely. Which is not "spending other people's money." If spending other people's money is socialist, why does the Canadian Soviet Socialist Republic (just ask any American Republican) have a lower debt-as-a-percentage-of-GDP than the cruel, merciless, starve-granny-in-the-streets U.S. (just ask any Canadian Lib or NDPer, or even half of the PCs)?
That's news to me- when someone takes my money and hands it over to people who won't work, it's exactly the same thing as spending other people's money. Even if technically it isn't, it doesn't make me feel any better.