Does Obama understand that a nation cannot survive being a "welfare state" and having open borders?

Yes, anyone with an average intelligence is aware of that, but many libs and some libertarians still want open borders. Clearly, these people do not want the USA to survive. Some states believe that the illegals that Obama has legalized will qualify for welfare.

Yes it can and America has, while it is not right for ILLEGALS to be in any country illegally, not just America it happens due to corrupt politics and politicians as well as foolish partisan voters who believe in, take sides, even whine , blame and lie like their politicians - Dem or Rep so cannot just be blaming politicians who are just playing the illegal game for more money, power, control and votes that the People foolishly believe in ... sadly, no one is caring about the illegals just the money it brings to politics and politicians - Dem, Rep, American and Foreign, businesses and CHEAP people who don't want to pay decent wages, sadly, illegals are just EXPLOITED cheap human labor as are many legal immigrants , nothing else and People do not care , illegals have been happening and exploited since long and way before Obama, Republicans were the first and only to grant Amnesty by a then Republican President Reagan !

O'dumbo obviously doesn't understand it. He follows Europe, who has experimented with socialism for almost a century, and even though those nations are heavily in debt, they survive. He believes we can survive our huge debt crises by just not paying it. We'll see in the future if the liberal ideology of spend to the end works, or if we'll collapse like the Roman Empire fell.

Dem or Rep so cannot just be blaming politicians who are just playing the illegal game for more money, power, control and votes that the People foolishly believe in ... sadly, no one is caring about the illegals just the money it brings to politics and politicians - Dem, Rep, American and Foreign, businesses and CHEAP people who don't want to pay decent wages, sadly, illegals are just EXPLOITED cheap human labor as are many legal immigrants

I beg to differ. The social welfare states of Europe are doing a much better job for the average, non-wealthy, person. You need to read a bit about the rest of the civilized world.

Sure he does, which is why he isn't doing that. The ones who do qualify for visas have had to have been here for five years and have family who are citizens, this has nothing to do with opening borders, they are already here and have been for years, and they are not eligible for welfare, in fact they never have been, that's been part of the law for years.

Yes Obama is smarter then you suppose. He is well aware that giving twice as much Corporate Welfare than Social Welfare is destroying our economy.

The sort of nation he envisions - one in which the people individually have no say and the collective is all-powerful - requires a welfare state for its existence.

Here is were you are wrong. Those 40 million did not just show up beginning 2008.

They have been here for years upon years. Before and after. Its fair to look at the deportation record.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-...

Obama's intention is to destroy the United States.