Very nice summary. I try to sum it up like this:
The primary beneficiaries of a socialist program are the socialist politicians. The secondary are the bureaucracies, and tertiaries are the supposed recipients. Everything after is fluff.
Charles Barkley said it well; "Poor people been voting for democrats for fifty years and they're still poor".
Of course, the socialist politicians are not socialists at all. They use the propaganda to manipulate people.
A while back Congressional rep Jim McDermott from Seattle who is an avowed socialist lost a court decision over illegal wiretapping and was ordered to pay over $800,000. Rather than borrow money or sell his million dollar estate atop Seattle Queen Anne's hill he had Bill Clinton and other dem big hitters come out here to conduct legal fund fundraisers for him. Socialist rulers would never spend their own money, not even on themselves.