Joe's and socialism

It turns out Joe the plumber is really Sam the liar.

I love that some are now calling Obama's policies as socialism or even going so far as to actually label him as a socialist. My question; do Americans really know what socialism is then.

After having done a paper about water privatization and Neo-liberal thought I am beginning to wonder why government is doing so much for the big businesses. Isn't that keeping the people with dreams from being able to compete with them. It seems this is going against itself. Plus why should government be pro-business? I thought it was for the people by the people, guess I was wrong.