ROTFL! I was among the first FReepers to read (in full), and post direct excerpts from, the official Vatican.va-hosted English translation of Caritas in veritate. The initial Catholic reaction to my posts was that I was using a suspect/poor/faulty translation, because the Catholics identified it as socialism, too. They later changed their tune when they saw that it came from the Pope, and now they only claim that atheistic socialism is bad.
I was among the first to point out your biases and errors too. After all, what in the heck was a religious institution like the Catholic Church doing presuming to remind the peoples and nations of the world of our obligation to charity and beatitude. Those darned Catholics have some nerve, don't they?
Perhaps in your haste to land the first blow you over looked (intentionally?) cautionary sections like the following:
The Church does not have technical solutions to offer and does not claim “to interfere in any way in the politics of States.” She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance, for a society that is attuned to man, to his dignity, to his vocation. Without truth, it is easy to fall into an empiricist and skeptical view of life, incapable of rising to the level of praxis because of a lack of interest in grasping the values — sometimes even the meanings — with which to judge and direct it. Fidelity to man requires fidelity to the truth, which alone is the guarantee of freedom (cf. Jn 8:32) and of the possibility of integral human development.
The principle of subsidiarity must remain closely linked to the principle of solidarity and vice versa, since the former without the latter gives way to social privatism, while the latter without the former gives way to paternalist social assistance that is demeaning to those in need.
Subsidiarity is first and foremost a form of assistance to the human person via the autonomy of intermediate bodies. Such assistance is offered when individuals or groups are unable to accomplish something on their own, and it is always designed to achieve their emancipation, because it fosters freedom and participation through assumption of responsibility.
Being out of work or dependent on public or private assistance for a prolonged period undermines the freedom and creativity of the person and his family and social relationships, causing great psychological and spiritual suffering.