"We're not socialist!" or are we?

From this article:

Sweden's famous "welfare state" spends only about 8.6 percent more per capita than the United States -- probably a much smaller difference than most would have guessed. France spends virtually the same amount as the U.S., just 1.6 percent more. Meanwhile, Finland spends 6 percent less. Countries such as Germany, Italy, and the U.K. don't even come close to the U.S. And our neighbor Canada spends 14 percent less per capita than the U.S. Japan spends 32 percent less.

This is like, oh, depressing. Um, where do you go with this? I can't believe we're outspending these hopelessly Socialist nations, and not even delivering the population-anesthetizing freebie benefits those nations have. None of the classic Socialist bennies. Cradle-to-grave income, a job for every warm body, free no-questions-asked healthcare. None of it yet. Well, the healthcare thing will come 'round soon enough, though.

But we outspend per capita more than the Socialists? That's just depressing.