Unfortunately the right labels that as socialism and then the concept is dead in the water.
I forget who said it first but it was something like, The value of of a society can be judged on how well they treat those incapable of contributing to that society.
It pisses me off that our gov't can spend billions to help poor people in nations all over the world when we have so many homeless right in our back yards. Let's clean up our own backyards before becoming janitors for the rest of the world.
The quote has been said many ways and attributed to many people. This is one of the more elegant;
"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi
And America currently fails this test terribly. Make no mistake about it, either; it isn't the majority of American citizens who think this is socialism, rather it's the corporate sponsored media and corporate owned political class who say such things. This worm is beginning to turn, if slowly.
Once people figure out that starving the poor is how the rich and mega corporations pay for their tax breaks, all hell will (justifiably) break loose.
