I read it as he wrote it. All the basic needs of life at "no or minimal cost." It doesn't matter that the government is already metastasized into almost every sector of our economy. For the socialists, it's never enough. More power, and more wealth funneled through the State. That the wealth needs to be created at some point is never an issue. A good socialist believes wealth simply "is."

Defense is a constitutional requirement of our government, and even then you might notice it's not exactly a sterling example of fiscal responsibility either. And do you really think we're getting our money's worth out of our government education system?

A government-run automobile industry gave us the Yugo. You'd think after decades of abysmal failures of centralized economies, somebody would learn something.