How about referring to it as
How about referring to it as "maintaining the infrastructure" of your home?
America is our home. Republicans are leeches lying on hammocks and drinking daquiris and whining about spending money maintaining the infrastructure of our home. They want everyone but themselves to live in Dogpatch.
You read my mind. I've been
You read my mind. I've been thinking up ways, because when you bring up the S-word folks think the USSR or North Korea and never Scandinavia. We need to take a Mad Men approach to this. Preferably something that doesn't start with an S, but hey if we can't we can't. Maybe a connection of words?