Charles Koch issues his instructions to the peasants

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Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out
MARCH 1, 2011
"By CHARLES G. KOCH
Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis."
Charles resents that the government provides services that he and his companies have no need for, and wost of all that the government has the effrontery to expect him and his companies to help pay for those services.
"For many years, I, my family and our company have contributed to a variety of intellectual and political causes working to solve these problems. Because of our activism, we've been vilified by various groups. Despite this criticism, we're determined to keep contributing and standing up for those politicians, like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who are taking these challenges seriously."
Yes he and his brother are determined to roll the clock of our government back 100 years, before socialist evils like the income tax, unions, and modern climate science. Walker is one of Charles' loyal retainers as Walker demonstrated when he was Punked.
Charles rails at length against government budget shortfalls, but any thought that he or his brother should sacrifice anything more to help solve the problem is unthinkable, and excluded from any consideration.
"Government spending on business only aggravates the problem. Too many businesses have successfully lobbied for special favors and treatment by seeking mandates for their products, subsidies (in the form of cash payments from the government), and regulations or tariffs to keep more efficient competitors at bay.
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want."
I see that the concept of irony is unknown to Charles Koch. But then he tries to justify his being very successful at gaming the system with an"everybody does it" argument.
"Because every other company in a given industry is accepting market-distorting programs, Koch companies have had little option but to do so as well, simply to remain competitive and help sustain our 50,000 U.S.-based jobs."
Then Charles instructs his retainers in the Congress and Provincial Capitals on what nature country he and his companies would like to see America become, with almost all of the nation's resources in private hands (preferably with the lion's share in the hands of a clique of like minded Plutocrats).
"Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers—not governments—to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens."
No Charles, the most prosperous countries invest their resources in their human assets, as well as curbing unbridled corporate power.
2010 Human Development Index
#1 Norway 0.938 (steady)
#2 Australia 0.937 (steady)
#3 New Zealand 0.907 (increase 17)
#4 United States 0.902 (increase 9)
More from Charles
"Even though it affects our business, as a matter of principle our company has been outspoken in defense of economic freedom. This country would be much better off if every company would do the same. Instead, we see far too many businesses that paint their tails white and run with the antelope."
This part is gratifying. Charles is admitting that pushing their libertarian politics so forcefully has made them unpopular and hurt business. He wants other corporate leaders to join him in his unpopular stands and take the heat off of Koch Industries.
We're doing good!
Keep up the boycott. We're striking at their hearts
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/01/951272/-Charles-Koch-issues-his-instruc...
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"Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch--the billionaire owners of Koch Industries--have long attempted to usurp American Democracy. Their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin are the final straw. Starting today we fight back. Starting with an Arrow, shot straight through the heart of Corruption & Greed !
EXPECT US....
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ANONRRR
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This elephant has come to our attention. Expect us.
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ANONRRR:
A+ graphic ! +^d !
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ANONRRR:
neat elephant tail.
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So I guess all those Black and Irish slaves, Chinese rail workers, Indentured servents and the rest of oour ancestors were just here sucking off the welfare tete will you and thoise hard working rich white guys built everything.
http://tonedetox.org - 2 years ago
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brucerogers:
The Koch brothers inherited their money and power, just like everyone else. Everyone can be rich ... step one, get a trust fund ... Step two, begin stepping on little the people ... step three . . . .you get the picture.
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A LETTER TO RECALL SCOTT WALKER
http://www.unitedwisconsin.com/ - 2 years ago
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fjt805:
Music to my mind !
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remanns
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Lets sing a song,....shall we ? A charming little ditty -
http://current.com/shows/upstream/92626623_they-hate-your-guts.htm
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Will they bring back debtors prisons?
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bike10:
soylent green .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE - 2 years ago
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bike10:
they've already got them. and more will be built. they're just not called that yet.
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-and-Defeat-Koch-Industries/155879361093898...
Products:
Koch Industry Gasoline:Chevron
Union
Union 76
ConocoKoch Industry/Georgia-Pacific Products:
Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkinsKoch Industry/Invista Products:
COMFOREL® fiberfill
COOLMAX® fabric
CORDURA® fabric
DACRON® fiber
POLYSHIELD® resin
SOLARMAX® fabric
SOMERELLE® bedding products
STAINMASTER® carpet
SUPPLEX® fabric
TACTEL® fiber
TACTESSE® carpet fiber
TERATE® polyols
TERATHANE® polyether glycol
THERMOLITE® fabric
PHENREZ® resin
POLARGUARD® fiber and
LYCRA® fiberGeorgia Pacific Building products
Dense Armor Drywall and Decking
ToughArmor Gypsum board
Georgia pacific Plytanium Plywood
Flexrock
Densglass sheathing
G/P Industrial plasters (some products used by a lot of crafters)-
Agricultural Plaster
Arts & Crafts Plaster
Dental Plaster
General Purpose Plaster
Glass-reinforced Gypsum (GRG)
Industrial Tooling Plaster
Investment Casting Plaster
Medical Plaster
Metal Casting Plaster
Pottery PlasterFibreStrong Rim board
G/P Lam board
Blue Ribbon OSB Rated Sheathing
Blue Ribbon Sub-floor
DryGuard Enhanced OSB
Nautilus Wall Sheathing
Thermostat OSB Radiant Barrier Sheathing
Broadspan Engineered Wood Products
XJ 85 I-Joists
FireDefender Banded Cores
FireDefender FS
FireDefender Mineral Core
Hardboard and Thin MDF including Auto Hardboard,
Perforated Hardboard and Thin MDF
Wood Fiberboard -
Commercial Roof Fiberboard
Hushboard Sound Deadening Board
Regular Fiberboard Sheathing
Structural Fiberboard Sheathing - 2 years ago
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August_K:
Thank you for compiling this list. It makes for easy reference by others.
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August_K:
wow. they're evil demi gods.(unless they don't have to use toilets- then they're gods)
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"William F. Buckley, yes William F. Buckley, the laissez-faire capitalism, anti-communist conservative centerpiece for decades called the Koch brothers ideology Anarcho-Totalitarianism, these guys, who fund a movement [Tea Party] that now has a caucus in congress, were too radical even for William Buckley."
http://blogs.alternet.org/rmontero/2010/09/11/koch-and-anarcho-totalitarianism/
Koch Industries lay off THOUSANDS of their own employees, pocket 11 Billion more
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/458013/as_tea_party_koch_brothers_e...$11_billion_in_recent_years,_they_laid_off_thousands/
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August_K:
damn. Buckley was the LAST of the American aristocrats; nobles oblige WAS part of his ethic,....respect it or not. If HE said that of these robber Baron,....ROBBER PIRATES,.....well,............FUCK ! +^d
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August_K:
Koch political donations have helped the company escape serious prosecution for emitting cancer-causing chemicals as well.
And it's only right that they should be the first recipients of those cancers caused by their chemical companies. Again, so mote it be!
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These souless man have no use for the hardworking men & women in the is Country and they are tearing us apart. Koch's want smaller Govenment for their own benefit. Don't think this is A Christmas Carol, where 3 ghosts will make them change. No. not gonna happen. We can't wait for President Obama to stand up to them, no we the people must stand up to these Godless demons. Now I know how to hate. Happy now!
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lol@Chuck
Keep spreading the word on these fools.
Share and like this stuff to your Facebook and Twitter friends/followers. Be the new media.
And remember it is going to take both the blue and red Americans to win this. Preaching to the choir and fighting the neighbor isn't going to get this done. Playing it that way plays right into people like the Koch's hands. Tune out bad politicians, not whole political groups.
No more blue and red...think purple!!!!
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The_Inglorious_Bastard:
No more blue and red...think purple!!!!
I loooove purple -- my front door and porch railing are purple :-)!!
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This is why the Koch's want smaller government and some agencies abolished.
Is it any surprise that the GOP/tea party just slashed EPA funding to the bone?
They finally got enough of "their guys" on the GOP's Energy committee to get the EPA neutered."In late 2000—as the Clinton Administration was preparing to leave office—Koch was hit with a 97-count indictment for covering up the discharge of more than 15 times the legal limit of benzene, a carcinogen, from a refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The company faced penalties of more than $350 million. Four Koch employees were also charged individually and faced up to 35 years in prison.
Three months after the Bush administration took office—and just before the lawsuit went to trial—the Justice Department abruptly settled the case.
Koch agreed to pay $20 million and plead guilty to a single count of concealment of information. In return, the Justice Department dropped all criminal charges against Koch and the four employees.(Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.) < Payback?
In another case, Koch was sued by the government in 1995 and 1997 over a reported 300 oil spills at pipelines owned and operated by the company. Those lawsuits sought from $71 million to $214 million in penalties for the spills, which dumped an estimated three million gallons of oil into lakes and streams in six states.
On January 13, 2000, the government settled that case for $35 million in fines.
The Kochs were also sued by their own brother several years ago in a case where the company was accused of stealing millions of barrels of oil from federal and Native American lands."
http://projects.publicintegrity.org/oil//report.aspx?aid=347
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August_K:
adding to the above.
And this was "their man" inside the EPA when Bush took office.
INSIDE MAN AT EPA
"Alex Beehler, assistant deputy under secretary of defense for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health, previously served at Koch as director of environmental and regulatory affairs and concurrently served at the Charles G. Koch Foundation as vice president for environmental projects. [16] Beehler was later nominated and re-nominated by the Bush White House, to become the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Inspector General."
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Fom another article.....some of their current control in Congress......"The billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch no longer sit outside Washington's political establishment, isolated by their uncompromising conservatism. Instead, they are now at the center of Republican power, a change most evident in the new makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Nine of the 12 new Republicans on the panel -- signed a pledge -- distributed by a Koch-founded advocacy group — Americans for Prosperity — to oppose the Obama administration's proposal to regulate greenhouse gases. Of the six GOP freshman lawmakers on the panel, five benefited from the group's separate advertising and grass-roots activity during the 2010 campaign.
Claiming an electoral mandate, Republicans on the committee have launched an agenda of the sort long backed by the Koch brothers. A top early goal: restricting the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees the Kochs' core energy businesses.
The new committee members include a congressman who has hired a former Koch Industries lawyer as his chief of staff."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206,0,16...
Invest in America......BUY A FEW CONGRESSMEN
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Older article..... but very informative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html
Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party"When David Koch ran to the right of Reagan as vice president on the 1980 Libertarian ticket (it polled 1 percent), his campaign called for the abolition not just of Social Security, federal regulatory agencies and welfare but also of the F.B.I., the C.I.A., and public schools — in other words, any government enterprise that would either inhibit his business profits or increase his taxes.
He hasn’t changed. As Mayer details, Koch-supported lobbyists, foundations and political operatives are at the center of climate-science denial — a cause that forestalls threats to Koch Industries’ vast fossil fuel business.
While Koch foundations donate to cancer hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York, Koch Industries has been lobbying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from classifying another product important to its bottom line, formaldehyde, as a “known carcinogen” in humans (which it is)." - 2 years ago
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The aim of the GPO for the last 30 years is to bring our government to the point of failure so that it is as inefficient as possible. Then many of the "services" provided to the less fortunate can be cut...including Medicare and SS. Small central government is the goal with no restraints on the free market...or as I call it....the VERY RICH.
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This is how arrogant these rich f**ks are. I hate these people. These Koch brothers can go to hell and take Scott Walker with them. Keep talking Charlie. Let the whole world get to know you. Someone like yourself is not going to tell me to "stay in my place" and serve a piece of shit like you!
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Leen61:
Kudo's Leen.....perfectly spoken !!
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twinite:
Thank you! :)
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Leen61:
only thing I'd ever serve him is a court order
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figgdimension:
I agree with that!
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The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science denial.” The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.
In a statement, Koch Industries said that the Greenpeace report “distorts the environmental record of our companies.” And David Koch, in a recent, admiring article about him in New York, protested that the “radical press” had turned his family into “whipping boys,” and had exaggerated its influence on American politics. But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer#ixzz1FNq7eVau
This is just a little something I came upon while reading up on these crooks....
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twinite:
I am painting the Koch-topus NOW!!!!! I was totally thinking an octopus/seamonster
that was on top the whitehouse and capital squeezing with its tentacles money and oil popping out every where even had a dream bout it few nights ago whats cool is it will be invisible till you shine a light on it OMG its a masterpiece leaving to paint NOW!!! - 2 years ago
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twinite:
thanks for naming it!
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figgdimension:
That's awesome !! I've been visualizing the Kochtopus ever since I read the article...I can hardly wait to see it.
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"Government spending on business only aggravates the problem. Too many businesses have successfully lobbied for special favors and treatment by seeking mandates for their products, subsidies (in the form of cash payments from the government), and regulations or tariffs to keep more efficient competitors at bay.
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want."
The cronie calling the croonies a kettle stupid rabbit tricks are for kids! - 2 years ago
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"Charles rails at length against government budget shortfalls, but any thought that he or his brother should sacrifice anything more to help solve the problem is unthinkable, and excluded from any consideration."
.......about sums it all up.
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twinite:
How convenient - for them. Sad!
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Humps like this have to be stopped. Koch is a rebirth of John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan. Allowing these individuals to maintain too much power will keep us in a position of servitude where the corporate monopolies crush everything in their path. Some of the ideas I’m hearing on progressive radio stations about forming a left-wing version of the Tea-Party sound pretty good right now. http://sibob.org/wordpress/
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Keep talking , a$$hole . You are digging your own grave .
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Did he really just call himself an "Activist" - "Standing Up For Politicians Like Walker"?
Koch Logic:
Rich & Powerful people buying Politicians = ActivistWorking Class people marching with signs = Thugs
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Stoneyroad:
I think you characterized kochlogic well. +^d
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These Koch suckers are not very smart. They profess to believe in the market place and then Charley starts flipping people off.
If you are a Democrat then Koch Industries is your enemy;
If you belong to organized labor then Koch Industries is your enermy;
If you work at any level in Federal, State and Local governments then Koch Industries is your enemy.
If you are concerned about the environment then Koch Industries is your enemy.
If you are concernned about economic justice then Koch industries is your enemy.
If you support public education then Koch Industries is your enemy.I don't know, Charley, but I think you just flpped off hundreds of millions of people, and if they get pissed then the market place is gonna bankrupt your fat ass. Gonna do all I can to make sure they get pissed off.
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wyndesonge:
I think they have reached a "bridge too far" moment. Yepper. +^d
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wyndesonge:
Don't underestimate them. These guys are very smart. What they can't directly control, they manipulate with information marketing to the hardcore Fox Viewers. That misinformation is further distributed to the apolitical friends and relatives who don't know any better. The end result is a solid 25-35% of people that swallow this crap hook line and sinker. If people think that Barak Obama is a Muslim communist that is completely unqualified to be President, then they will not see past the thin veneer of the Koch propaganda.
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wyndesonge:
Headline: Koch bros. enemies of the World !
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wyndesonge:
If you're paranoid the Koch's are your enemy. George Soros pretends to be a friend of the left funding MoveOn, Media Matters, Center for American Progess, NPR and American Coming Together. He uses the left as pawns as laughs at them all the way to the bank. He's an international financier. He's been convicted of insider trading. He always seems to be here to make profilts in the millions and billions when country's currency fails. He always seems to have their currency shorted at just the right time.
You're all pawns for this man. When playing chess the pawns are the pieces sacrificed for the win. Pawns are the first pieces lost. Good luck!
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How much money did the Koch brothers pocket with the Republican/Democratic tax breaks over the past 10 years? Billions? Trillions?
Our middle class existence is under attack, America is at war with itself and many still don't know why or how it happened! Greed is the enemy and greed runs through the veins of Corporate America! The only way to end the BS is by taxing the greed from their veins! So how do we do it? By voting for candidates who stand with the people, not big campaign contributors!
When you vote Republican, Tea Party, or Blue Dog, this is the end result! They favor slave wage nations over America and its people. They are against a decent wages for the people living here in America? They want to cut programs, cut services, end our education system! Why? So they can control your lives! Communist China vs America! When you support a Republican you support Communist China and the suppression of it people! Its a power play! Politicians make the laws and rules, Corporate America pays the way, and you get to eat shit they leave on the floor! - 2 years ago
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i hope they fall hard on their fat heads.
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Are Koch's statements as much a warning and rallying cry to his paid for political functionaries, as they are a call to arms, and for support from his corporate conspirants? Irrespective of these possibilities, each of the prior comments on this post is valid.
Yes, it's obvious that actions ranging from an international call for the boycotting of all Koch products, to the warning issued by ANONYMOUS, have shaken the Kochs to attention. We must keep our collective retaliation against these parasitic monsters up, until we bring them to their knees! So often some people ask: "How can we fight these huge corporations, and the politicians they pay for?". Now, the answer has been revealed to you directly from the culprits mouth. Hit them in the profit margin! When it comes to the bottom line, it is their bottom line that will always take precedence. Through our choice of which products and services we choose to purchase, we can control the world.
More than any of us have access to witness, corporate heads around the world are taking note of the backlash against the Kochs. They already know that the people of the world are demanding socially responsible products and services. Now they are seeing what happens when the people discover corporate efforts to control the lives of the people through their self serving political activities. Part of our task going forward is to distinguish those corporations which are truly operating in socially and environmentally responsible manners, from those which merely advertise to be doing so, while continuing to poison the environment and exploit otherwise helpless people.
Every time a corporate name is published as being the enemy of the people and their world, and every time a list is published of the products and services of predatory and parasitic corporations to be boycotted, corporate CEOs and stockholders pay attention and take note. While we must continue marching on our capitols until we achieve government reform, we must continue diminishing the power of the enemy by denying it profits.
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
Agreed hit them in the pockets
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
I don't believe there are enough people aware the boycott suggestion to have an impact on Koch Industries. On the 4pm news on the radio Wisconsin was mentioned as the next to last story just before National Pancake Day. The number of people and how passive the rally I attended Saturday demonstrates people aren't paying attention.
I read the WSJ article. What I saw was the Koch's admitting there's a problem with corporate deductions and subsidies. But as long as these corporate advantages exist they will take advantage to maintain competitive with their competition.
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Warren_Merrill:
LOL, once again! Is there really a National Pancake Day, or is this simply your humorous interjection?
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
National Pancake Day ... We may not agree. But I don't make up stories. Tonight Wisconsin didn't hit the PBS News Hour until the second half hour.
http://www.5newsonline.com/news/kfsm-ihop-celebrates-national-pancake-day-with-f...
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Warren_Merrill:
LOLOL...,Go figure! Is there like a national popcorn day too? Guess I don't get out much...lol
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
Ask and you shall receive ...
http://www.popcorn.org/AboutUs/Media/NationalPopcornDay/tabid/115/Default.aspx
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Warren_Merrill:
O.K. - O.K.,,,UNCLE!!! Please show me no more! I confess that there is more stupidity in government and this country than not. And I'm now informed of another reason why so little gets accomplished in government.
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COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:
It's amazing state and federal politicians waste time on this stuff then pat themselves on the back in the name of bipartisanship. When you see a liberal and a conservative voted the same way it's usually this BS.
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Is everyone aware that part of Gov. Walkers budget bill has a provision to sell the utility companies in Wisconsin to a private owner through a no bid contract? Now lets see here, the Koch brothers donated $ 43,000 to Walker personally and then donated $1,000,000 to the RGA (Republican Governors Assoc. created by Turd Blossom (Karl Rove) & Miss. Gov. Haley Barbor) and then the RGA donated $4.3 million to Gov. Walkers campaign. Common sense tells me that that Governors office in Wisconsin is up for sell.
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panichead:
Common sense tells me that that Governors office in Wisconsin is up for sell.
I think it's more like Walker is their w.h.0.r.e.
- 2 years ago
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wolfess
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fascistsoup
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The author of this article apparently doesn't understand basic economics.
- 2 years ago
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fascistsoup
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noxidereus
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Those who have never seen hardship themselves must have a really hard time empathizing with actual human beings. I would feel sorry for the Kochs if they weren't so supremely evil.
- 2 years ago
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noxidereus
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JanforGore
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1c6C_WY288
Koch Brothers = CLIMATE CRIMINALS.
- 2 years ago
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JanforGore
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downwitliberals
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the Koch Brothers are real americans who use their money for the greater good of this country
- 2 years ago
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downwitliberals
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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downwitliberals:
Shouldn't you be on your knees licking their balls instead of learning to type. I'm sure it'll have a better pay off....tea bagger.
- 2 years ago
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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littlwarrior
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downwitliberals:
Omg just laughed so hard I almost wet myself. Wait you weren't serious were you?
- 2 years ago
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littlwarrior
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savroD
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downwitliberals:
ahhhh.... the tea-bagged peasantry speaks!
My reply:
NUTS!
- 2 years ago
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savroD
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JanforGore
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downwitliberals:
You need to stop spiking your tea.
- 2 years ago
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JanforGore
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noxidereus
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downwitliberals:
If you think wage-slavery is a good thing, the middle class is a bad thing, and corporate interests outweigh that of humankind then I can see how you might come to that conclusion. I however do not believe these things and thus I strongly disagree with you. I side with humanity.
- 2 years ago
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noxidereus
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Persecuted
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littlwarrior:
lol i laughed too
- 2 years ago
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Persecuted
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s_peak
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downwitliberals:
Just like the Rockefeller family, they are incredibly good capitalists... and the nature of this country is capitalist. The problem with that, though... is that capitalism is extremely bad for the world at-large. Countries all around the world suffer because our excess, and now, MOST american citizens are beginning to suffer under the machinations of capitalism. When we put money above everything else, we lose sight of what's really important... survival, the planet, clean water, etc. The Koch brothers, while being great capitalists, don't give a shit about the world (or you) as long as they own it. I, for one, don't want to live in a world where we are forced to compete in a biased game where we take finite resources from one another just to make ourselves feel powerful. It's psychotic.
- 2 years ago
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s_peak
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unutterably_beautiful
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downwitliberals:
you are funny!
like a kid in a playpen digging around inside his diapers for something to eat - 2 years ago
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unutterably_beautiful
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artemis6
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savroD:
I know the history of that reply . Indeed , it is the best reply !
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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savroD
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artemis6:
Artemis.... on that note I'll give you a 1-Up!
- 2 years ago
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savroD
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dreamsenvoy
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downwitliberals:
unconscious
- 2 years ago
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dreamsenvoy
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figgdimension
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downwitliberals:
your kind are dwindling ROBOT the Industrial revolution is OVER!
- 2 years ago
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figgdimension
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Warren_Merrill
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s_peak:
What awful people ....
In the last decade, it's also worth noting the Kochs have given more than $600 million in pledged or donated money to arts, education, and medical research, including (but not limited to):
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell: $15 million
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: $25 million
The Hospital for Special Surgery: $26 million
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $30 million
Prostate Cancer Foundation: $41 million
Deerfield Academy: $68 million
Lincoln Center's NY State Theater: $100 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $139 millionIt's common on PBS to hear "this program has been partially funded by" one of the following foundations run by the Kochs.
Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
David H. Koch Foundation
Koch Cultural Trust
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation - 2 years ago
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artemis6
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savroD:
And I , you : )
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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s_peak
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Warren_Merrill:
Sorry for the aimless rant, here... it got a little out of hand... but......
In my opinion, charity is wasted money (sometimes). It tends to treat the symptom and not the cause... simply because it's rooted in a system that requires profit and growth. There are several doctors who have already found cures for cancer (at least one of which was forced to prove this finding in a court of law... and he won)... There is plenty of evidence to support it, including living patients who no longer have cancer. The unfortunate truth is... the society we have created is the one breeding cancer (and Alzheimer, diabetes, etc) ... for cancer (almost 100% of the time) can be traced back to the foods we eat, the crap in our tap water, or just environmental toxins in general... and the Koch brothers are notorious environment trashers. Couple that with a lack of knowledge about nutrition (this reason is traced back to profit once again).... (like, for instance, that sunglasses supress your body's tanning response, making you more likely to get skin cancer (vitamin D from sunshine is probably the most potent anti-oxidant we know) ... especially if you smoke and eat too much omega 6 fat or sugar)... then you're left with a world where money can dictate our knowledge/opinion. Privatized hospitals make more money selling cancer treatment (in fact, it's a multi-billion dollar industry) than they do curing it. Also important to note... the GDP goes up when more people get cancer. Which makes sense... because our GDP is steadily rising... even in an economic crisis.
That was kind of an aimless rant... but my point is that when you're the cause of the problem... a little charity is bullshit. Capitalism doesn't work. It's invariably corrupt to it's core, and even doctors can't be trusted because they aren't even ALLOWED to work against conventional opinion in medicine... and the conventional opinion is seated in profit.
So don't take pity on the Kochs. Yes... they gave to charity... but they (and those like them ) are the ones who created the destruction that facilitates the NEED for those charities in the first place.
- 2 years ago
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s_peak
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Warren_Merrill:
There also why we got all these stupit govenors and teaparty congress. Good doesn't always overcome evil.
- 2 years ago
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SFirman
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Warren_Merrill
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SFirman:
Stupit? Hmmm
The governors are going to bring state's rights back where they belong. There's way too much federal instrusion on state's affairs.
- 2 years ago
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fjt805
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downwitliberals:
Who said that Scott Walker?
- 2 years ago
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fjt805
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cicly
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Warren_Merrill:
government subsidies and tax breaks come in handy when ya want to throw money around to charities.
- 2 years ago
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cicly
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remanns
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Koch Suckers.
- 2 years ago
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remanns
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kennymotown
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I deleted my comment because it may have been a bit too over the top! So I will replace that comment with this statement.
Dear Koch brothers your Corporation is like a disease that needs to be eradicated. Therefor your free speech is destroying our Democracy and we the people have declared war on your disease. Please do not take it personnel, it's just business you know OUR BUSINESS.
http://current.com/news/93036479_the-story-of-citizens-united-v-fec-why-democrac...
- 2 years ago
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kennymotown
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kennymotown:
I'll drink to that!
((in a few hours though, it's sill morning where I am))
- 2 years ago
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Schnookums
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PoliticalAmazon
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kennymotown:
Well, FINE. I wanted to see the over-the-top comment.
- 2 years ago
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PoliticalAmazon
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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PoliticalAmazon:
LOL! Me too!
- 2 years ago
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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figgdimension
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kennymotown:
Lmao I love these artists glad you found Kenny they rock huh!?
- 2 years ago
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figgdimension
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wolfess
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Wow! All this negative info about the koched-up brats is really bugging this s.o.b. -- otherwise why would he risk coming out of hiding like the kochroach he is? I know the only time I react like he has is when someone has pegged me and I don't want people to realize what an @$$hole I really am.
- 2 years ago
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wolfess
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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wolfess:
Oh so clever.... Kochroaches! NIIIICE!
- 2 years ago
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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figgdimension
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wolfess:
Kochroaches and Banksters always go running when the lights come on all you can here is the scurrying of fat little bodies on skinny little roach legs ewwwww Lmao voted^
- 2 years ago
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figgdimension
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kennymotown
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kennymotown:
Concentrate on exposing the real reason for his power. The only (financial) difference between you Koch is that no one will loan you $230 million dollars to go buy a successful company to provide you with an income stream.
- 2 years ago
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wolfess
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kennymotown:
You are not above dying like anyone else and if you continue to force your unchecked opinions and philosophy on the masses because of illegal activity's you will meet your maker sooner than later!
So mote it be!
- 2 years ago
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wolfess
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kennymotown
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Schnookums:
Yes indeed!
- 2 years ago
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kennymotown
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wolfess
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Schnookums:
Koch Industries were fighting a legal battle in court when the shrubster stole office and one of the first things he did as prez was settle their case for pennies on the dollar. See? We really can blame everything on that worthless shrub that should have been trimmed long before it got out of control on the grounds of the WH.
- 2 years ago
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wolfess
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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wolfess:
I come from a place where excess and overgrown shrubbery was simply torn out of the ground.... and burned in a fire pit. Ahhh.... yes.
- 2 years ago
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ConcernedAboutRFuture
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artemis6
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Schnookums:
Actually , they inherited theirs , it wasn't like they had to pay anything back to get started .
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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artemis6
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wolfess:
I don't want them to die , just go to prison and have their wealth distributed to those they wronged , the needy . Then he can die . Can we just do that instead ?
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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wolfess
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ConcernedAboutRFuture:
I love it! Imagine the magnificent fire we could have if we threw a little gasoline on it :-)!!!
- 2 years ago
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wolfess