John, it would not surprise me a bit if the policies being put in place right now have one primary real beneficiary in mind: the largest international banks.

Why? Because that's the way it's been for a very long time now in the entire western world, not just the USA. Those banks run the governments. They do it unofficially, they do it secretly (through the power of the vast amounts of fictional money and real debt that they create), and they do it entirely for their own gain as self-serving, profit-making entities with no loyalty to any society or any moral credo. A government that does not cooperate with them is brought down by them.

Obama may know that. He may not know it. If he does know it, he is probably also aware that he can't do anything about it, and that if he really tried to, he would soon end up dead.

This isn't a liberal/conservative issue at all. This is a great and corrupt international banking system that has taken over the world over the last few centuries, and it controls the various governments by ensuring that they are always so massively in debt to it that they simply cannot survive without continuing to play its game...which is the collection of the ever enlarging interest on their ever-enlarging debts.

As for the rest of us little people...do you really think the owners of the banks give a hoot about that?