It has come to my attention that this quote from Obama may be false. Nevertheless, whether he wrote it or not, it is quite obviously what he believes, as he's practically said so much in regards to health care and reparations.

Besides, the purpose in quoting it isn't to demonize Obama personally, but to make the point that economic freedom cannot be achieved through government intervention -- *by definition*.

There are many who truly believe the message of the 'fake-thesis', including Obama and many in congress. Unfortunately, our politicians' solutions to fix the problems of poverty/wealth gap are polarized, and both critically flawed, unfortunately. The "Big Brother" mentality of the Dems destroys personal responsibility and the "Sink-or-Swim" mentality of the Reps fails to enable the truly impoverished to help themselves, even if they want to. There is a solution in the middle and all we care about is which party will get its way...