Have a helpful quote

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
 We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. "
~Friedrich Bastiat

Au Contraire, you'll find Americans to be the most generous people on the planet. 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101240935

What we are, or at least what my side of the aisle is against, is putting a gun to someone's head and taking their stuff.