Socialism is not a yes/no, it is a sliding scale. The question is not if we want to be socialist, as almost everyone is at least a bit socialist. It is a question of how socialist we want to be.
Presumably the OP likes his socialized army, his socialized fire department, his socialized road network, and his socialized water piping. I guess he parts company with Venezuela on socialized toilet paper.
I'd add... socialized police force, socialized national parks, socialized national weather service, socialized education system k-12, socialized college system(s), socialized public libraries... bridges... landfills, garbage collection, student loans, farm subsidies, FBI, CIA, EPA, polio vaccine (assuming he/she understands How the immune system works), prison system, museums, subsidies to banks, subsidies to large corporations such as General Electric, energy companies, etc., veterans health care, education benefits to retired veterans family members in California (free tuition to any state school... includes Junior college, state schools and University of California schools), pay and benefits to ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS, sewer systems, R&D (most of which occurs in academia), food stamps, medicare, county courtsystem, state court system, federal court system, IRS, bird flu vaccines, GI Bill, Hoover Dam, golden gate bridge, city zoos, state zoos, medicaid, Food and Drug Administration, bird flu vaccine, swine flu vaccine, health carefor 911 workers, city beaches,state run beaches, municipial lakes to provide water for drinking and farms, city busses, snow removal on state roads, Centers for Disease Control, public lighting of roadways...
socialist systems, all of them... i got tired of typing these in, there are more of course
