Like all European-style far-left politicians, the last thing Obama wants is a strong middle class with lots of job opportunities. He wants everybody poor and dependent on the Federal government, just like the way it is in Europe. Then he can still sink even more money into the Federal bureaucracy, growing it and having even more people dependent on it. But what makes Obama even more disgusting, even more reprehensible, is that all of the welfare states in Europe are failing right now, right before his very eyes. They are all bankrupt and scrambling to find ways not to default on their bonds (which they will, by the way). Yet seeing all this evidence that the European welfare state will not work, seeing all this evidence that not only will it fail, but also take down millions of people with it, Obama STILL wants to pursue this goal. That makes hime either a committed socialist (maybe even a communist), or just unwilling to admit that everything he’s been fighting for his whole life has been wrong. My bet is that it’s a lot of both.
