Can Socialism Work?

I agree that the concepts of most social programs now in effect were admirable. However, government administration ruins the programs due to politics, greed, and corruption. As a program ages the complexity and cost necessarily grows, not to improve or enlarge service, but to enrich politicians, special interest groups, providers, and big business. The taxpayer pays, and pays, and pays. Politicans can't, won't and don't administer the programs because they don't want to be held responsible for the inevitable downside. But they certainly want their names attached to all the money spent on the programs...portrays them as a "good and patriotic representative", of the common citizen. It's all about votes, money, and power - in my lifetime of 65 years I've witnessed only a huge escalation of that fact. At least years ago they would hide the avarice, now...it's in your face! Now, as numerous government programs have been milked dry by the parasites, the government gives the programs to private contractors to operate as businesses. Taxpayers were billed billions of dollars to set up and operate these programs and now they are in the hands of private business. I don't want any more socialized programs - their track record is abysmal.

I say that the correct answer is YES