What Obama really is saying, ‘we’re going to keep you people on the welfare plantation so you are obligated to vote for your meager increases in handouts. We cannot afford to give your children a quality education because they would possibly realize what we are doing in Washington’.
You are onto something, keeping people dependent is their goal, insulating power. School unions and their Marxist politician allies need dummies to rule over, like Jesse Jackson requires poor blacks to ensure his blackmailing business thrives. If they learned to be self sufficient, the game is over for the Left via ‘compassion’.