And yet, if we actually decide to do Iraq-scale rebuilding of our inner cities you'll see people shouting "SOCIALISM!!!" Makes me wonder how we ever won the populace support to spend that kind of money on Iraq/Afghanistan. I guess probably because it was packaged as a threat "If we don't go over there they're going to bomb us because they hate our freedom". So perhaps one line of campaigning to get funding for social programs for inner cities could be "If we don't go over in inner cities to rebuild them they're going to start coming into your suburb homes and steal your stuff and make your life miserable".