Koch to Buffett: ‘My Business And Non-Profit Investments is More Beneficial to Society’

Patterson to Koch: This is your last stand. Your arrogance is both ignorant and ugly. Welcome to the end of your greed. Thank you for accelerating it's demise.

What a piece of self serving hedonistic shit. The headline alone made me throw up in my mouth

What people like the Koch's believe is they are not required to support the country that supports them. You know, like someone who makes 200K a year, lives at home and refuses to help his parents out with bills. It's no more complicated than that. What I'm wondering is how long it will be before Americans and the rest of the world realize that we can do better without these kind of people than with them.

Amazing what a lot of money and a John Birch mentality can buy you in a free sociey. These two dangerous twits need to have a severe ass-kicking.

these arrogant basterds, arg bastards! I can't spell I am sooo insenced, AH INSENSED. These people give new meaning to a camel can fit through an eye of a needle rather than a rich man get into heaven. I wish there were a heaven so I could rest easy knowing none of us will have to deal with them. These cretins (YES, spelled it right!) would tell god they could do a better job forgiving sins and deciding who gets into heaven, and would buy the angels and then advertise their benificence. (sp?) benifisence, benificense. damn anglish langij.

The quality of the kool-aid one must be able to drink when you are THAT rich must leave one with an incredibly delicious heady, albeit addicitve, arrogance. They honestly believe that giving to their cherry-picked, guaranteed-to-be-pro-them, self-serving "non-profits" (which we've seen via Romney can come and go on a whim), opposing medicare-for-all, unions, doing more to create jobs in other countries (lower wages and no benefits or worker protections), parking their money in whatever tax haven they've found, paying lawyers and accountants to exploit every pausible loophole, paying less percentage-wise than their housekeepers RATHER than paying into the common fund for the common good (and not controlled by them, per se) - it just exasperates me.

AND the people SUPPORTING this kind of position, generally don't benefit
by "coddling" the super-rich/corporations, CLAIM to support the Constitution. Have they read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution? Did they skip that part where "All men are created equal" or the part about establishing "Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

How do we ensure justice when the courts and politicans are bought and paid for? As they would have our police and firefighters be (as in privatized, I do not mean bribed).
How can their be domestic tranquility if there is no hope of the promise of improvement in our lives or the security that we won't have to eat cat food while freezing to death in our old age or sit and watch our children starve because our job went overseas and Mr. Koch, or his ilk, buy a 7th home, perhaps this one in the south of France?
How do we promote the general Welfare (note that the GENERAL Welfare, not the welfare of the few), if we cut unemployment, heat assistance, school meals, food stamps, medicare - those things that people need the most when they are down? Or, those who work hard but need that little extra because the wage isn't enough to provide a minimal quality of life?
If they are allowed to continue with their "government just small enough to fit in your bedroom" and play "winner takes it all" type-games and laws focused on controlling the middle-class so they are afraid of losing their jobs, and oppessing the poor because they aren't productive, therefore don't matter, then there will be no Liberty left to leave for our Posterity."

We shouldn't rely on government nor the altruism of rich people.

Does Koch really believe that we can rely on the rich to make non-profit investments?

I am more aligned with John Galt.
"Get the hell out of my way"

And he is referring to the government and big business.

So their contributions to Walker and Republicans under recall in Wisconsin... their contributions to Perry and all like causes are "more beneficial" to society than paying into the general pool for roads and bridges, public schools, police and fire departments, unemployment compensation, social security for seniors and the disabled. R-r-ight. They ceated so many jobs with those tax breaks and the bubble filled economy that increased their wealth by over 11 billion. Heaven knows going back to Clinton-era tax rates - my goodness, they may have to clip coupons. Eleven billion, twenty-two billion? Hey, it just doesn't go as far as it used to!

Nothing more the rich robber barons of the 21st. century.

revolting .

The Koch brothers make toilet paper and paper towels that can't clean the crap they make. Paper towels and toilet paper can't clean the pollution.

Toast 'em good, add a little mozarella, ...mmmm good.
What a pair of dickheads.
They'll never get the point of any issue but may get the pointy end of a great big BBQ skewer.

They will taste excellent on the BBQ!