Why does Barack Obama want to harm Americans? It's personal.

Let’s cut to the chase. How many jobs are created by poor people? Barack Obama wants to take money away from “rich” people, mostly small business owners – the people who create most of the jobs in the economy – despite the fact that doing so means that they will not hire the unemployed.

Some say that they are not sure if he understands this or not. Some people believe that he is using the Cloward-Pivin strategy to drive the political system to the brink by making the poor and unemployed class so large as to destroy the free enterprise economy. The question is, if he is not doing this as a way of creating an economic crisis, is he doing it from ignorance or malice.

Raising taxes on people who hire other people is destructive to the economy; most especially in an economy in recession. All serious economists agree. Most people who are not immersed in class warfare intuitively understand this.

He defends his proposal based on the cost of extending the current tax rates to those earning over $250,000, but that rationale is blindingly disingenuous. After spending literally trillions of dollars in a flurry of rapid-fire economic laws, frugality from this president is simply not believable.

There is no question that Obama’s tax proposals are not based on economics but on ideology. Whether it’s Cloward-Privin or Obama’s desire to tax the upper income people, Obama has stated unequivocally that taxing the “rich”, in the name of "fairness" is his objective whether it makes economic sense or not.

There is one other perspective on Obama’s rationale. Dinesh D’Sousa’s fascinating article about Obama as his father’s son, carrying out his dreams, may provide us with a possible insight into why he’s doing this.

Here is a man who spent his formative years--the first 17 years of his life--off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa.

A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King's dream? Or something else?

The elder Obama and his socialist associates were primarily focused on ruling their native lands after colonial Britain gave up its rule. They used top-down economic control because they, the Western educated elite in an agrarian society, believed that they knew best how to run their nation’s economies. When that experiment proved to lead to both widespread poverty as well as the implementation of dictatorial and one-party rule in post-colonial Africa the ruling class continued on the path they had established. There’s a good reason for this. There was no upside to giving up power in an impoverished land; the rulers live well even if the people starve. Idi Amin, who was reputed to have eaten his enemies, died fat.

As his father's son - in a real sense a virtual African immigrant - how does Barack view America and the rich in it? 

From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America's military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.

As a sidelight, the Ground Zero Mosque is America's due: 

Obama supports the Ground Zero mosque because to him 9/11 is the event that unleashed the American bogey and pushed us into Iraq and Afghanistan. He views some of the Muslims who are fighting against America abroad as resisters of U.S. imperialism.

Having achieved the peak of American power, the Obamas have none of the concerns that African rulers have of being supplanted by coups or overthrow. 

The strange thing about Obama is that he remains an enigma to Americans who depended on the news media to define and explain him.  It took another immigrant from a third world country to understand what he wrote in his book: 

In his own writings Obama stresses the centrality of his father not only to his beliefs and values but to his very identity. He calls his memoir "the record of a personal, interior journey--a boy's search for his father and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American." And again, "It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself." Even though his father was absent for virtually all his life, Obama writes, "My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!"

The Obamas are living well. They are employed until 2012 and have access to millions after that. His economic decisions will have no, zero, nada effect on the Obama family.  If he can achieve his father's dream of destroying private enterprise in this, the heart of capitalism, he will have achieved the dreams his father had that he passed on to little Barry.