My apologies to, as a socialist, myself. I should have added "spendthrift" to the preceding piece's title, since no conscientious socialist (and to my mind, that's something of a repetition) would ever have been as fiscally irresponsible as contemporary conservatives have been.
Which is to say, no socialist would have said, Let's help seniors with their prescription drug costs, and let's do it simply by putting it on a credit card; no socialist would have even begun Bush's and his Republican Congress' idiotic wars, let alone put their costs, too, on a credit card; and, quite obviously, no socialist would have ever battled to permanently cut taxes in the face of so many collective needs.
That is, no conscientious socialist would have done those things. Sure, many a GOP socialist would, and did, but the genuine article wouldn't.