Yglesias

Inflation Lessons From Syria's Civil War—Hyperinflation is Never a Monetary Phenomenon by Yglesias

We Need Government Handouts, Not Equality of Opportunity by Yglesias

...People can't work hard and get ahead on fair terms without lots of government support, and plenty of people who do work hard won't get ahead anyway for one reason or another and they need government support too.

My impression is that Obama and his team know all this and agree with it all, just like they know this is a total parenting strawman. It's just the faint echoes of Sister Souljah rattling around American racial politics. But it rankles.