So, in your mind, is it possible for a government to spend money and it not be socialism?
And do you also think privatized prisons are a good idea?
The United States has a Federal Government , State Governments and then Local governments. The Federal Government has enumerated powers for good reasons. The Federal Government should not reach it's power into what can be done via the State governments and the State governments should not reach it's power into what can be done at the local level and the local level should not reach it's power into what can be done by the individual. The enumerated powers of the Federal government dictate constitutionally that all other powers are left to the States and to the People. Charity is not the domain of any government. Individuals can VOLUNTARILY be as charitable as they wish and have no need for governments to take by force, via taxes for anything outside of their enumerated powers that the PEOPLE have agreed to give the institutions.
The United States of America has the BEST form of Government in the history of mankind. It was the first human advanced government that stated inalienable rights are endowed upon mankind by the Creator and can not be given or taken away by a Monarchy or despotic government run by "well meaning" delusional elites.
You want to ruin this form of government? Continue to "fundamentally transform" America until it's broken beyond repair.
“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe.…Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent and they will be vigilant, give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.” (Daniel Webster, Works, 1:403.)