The difference is that previously they guy in the oval office supported recovery. This time, 0bama is working to prevent recovery.
There’s a great mashup of Napoleon and Arthur C. Clarke I saw recently that applies here:
“A sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
It’s hard to tell where Obama is coming from. While malice is not unlikely (Cloward-Piven would be something I would expect him to know about given his background), simple advanced incompetence cannot be ruled out.
On the subject of “working to prevent recovery”, it is amazing how we are in many ways reliving the history of the Great Depression. The Forgotten Man should be required reading for everyone in government.