Monday, January 27, 2014
THINGS GO DIRTIER WITH KOCH!
A friend from my hometown posted this on his facebook page:
"David and Charles Koch are in the process of hosting their biannual conservative training session for billionaires in Indian Wells, California. The effort this year is to raise millions to mislead the public about Obamacare and to use that information to defeat vulnerable Democratic representatives and senators in the upcoming mid-term elections. They have rented out the entire Hotel Esmerelda (558 rooms), closed the restaurants to the public for three days, and shut down the recreational facilities (see the picture). They have also surrounded the grounds and nearby golf course with telephone laden security guards, all dressed in black (see my new friend). It was truly eerie watching this unfold."
If anyone can refute this, feel free to do so. But I don't think anyone will.
"Though the donors will funnel tens of millions of dollars into the election this year, they will not have to disclose a single cent. Using an elaborate array of foundations, nonprofits, and other legal entities, the Koch network sponsored bus tours, attack ads, think tanks, and hired Tea Party organizers to shape the midterm elections two years ago.
Now it appears they are expanding the effort. The most that the public knows about these meetings has been culled from leaked audio tapes, reporting from journalists like Ken Vogel, and from an invitation I exclusively reported back in October of 2010. The document I posted over a year ago explained that during the meetings, strategy is discussed, from legislative campaigns to judicial elections, and money is raised from an assortment of executives from the oil, banking, manufacturing, and real estate industries." --SOURCE
Now what was all that whining about we hear from the GOOPers about George Soros?
Do they really know nothing about the conservative corporatist fascists plotting in their own backyards to forever alter our democracy? The low-information voters were fed the lie that it is President Obama who would "fundamentally change" America, while, covertly, the billionaire Koch brothers are doing that very thing. The Koch brothers cynically turn us against each other, while plotting to buy up every legislator they can to make this country into their own private empire. It won't matter who the president is. America will belong to the Kochs.
My friend:
"Citizens United, which permits a powerful few to raise millions to influence elections, has the potential to fundamentally alter our democracy. "
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The truth will set you free.
Unfortunately nobody actually knows the full complete truth and all will spin what they think they know to suit their agenda.
All the while the Oligarchy, or plutacracy if you prefer, in alliance are laughing at us all.
Tis good to be objective and balanced.
The Koch Kingdom dolled out huge
$$$$ to defeat Obama in 2012. But,
regardless of $$$, unless they have a message that resonates with voters, they may as well just
sent their $$$ to a landfill .
RN: “Tis good to be objective and balanced.”
“Objective and balanced” or a fool’s paradise? Yes, we know all about the right of freedom to assemble, and all that pious nada dada, but when the Kochroach brothers gather their cronies, there is an eerie reminder of capo confabs when organized crime gathered in remote and secret places to plot nefarious misdeeds.
For over 30 years, the most powerful corporatists in America have bought off politicians to win special subsidies, outright grants, perks and privileges, and preferred tax status to further their obdurate self-interest at the expense of country and countrymen. Last week, this news report revealed: The world’s 85 wealthiest people have more money than half the world population.
The super-rich have hidden away over $21 trillion in secret tax havens. Yet, you complain of budget deficits and national debt and lend sympathy to those who would cut the social safety net - rather than stake a rightful claim on tax revenues that the sociopaths have cheated from you.
When the value of labor falls to subsistence wages and the middle class sinks into poverty, the sharks demand even more perks and privileges. Predatory capitalism is not capitalism; it’s feudalism.
Shaw was absolutely right some time ago when she said: Republicans are epic for voting against their own economic self-interest. In the marketplace of ideas, free speech is only as deep as your pocketbook, and the plutocracy speaks far louder than you or me, and the deep blue sea.
What the plutocrats do more successfully than making money is using think tanks to spin messages that atomize and splinter the electorate into partisan camps when people such as you and me should be finding common cause.
I find your comment frustrating and stupefying more than you can possibly imagine. You are literally selling out your progeny, not to the $$$ trillions in national debt, but to the criminals and sociopaths that put us in this position.
Capitalism has done more good for the poor than any other system in History! The quality of your life totally depends on you. So go make your OWN prosperity and quit wanting other to do it for you..that's what is dooming this country and our Freedoms.
The Liberal Loons want everything to be fair, and equal - they will destroy America, the land of OPPORTUNITY!
Notice how the pollution story just fades.
FREEDOM INDUSTRIES declares bankruptcy, they skate and we do it all again.
The Koch Brothers' "Freedom Industries" ruined the drinking water for 300,000 West Virginians, and Kock Brothers' F.I. filed for bankruptcy to avoid any responsibility for their human disaster.
But.
BENGHAZI! BENGHAZI! BENGHAZI!
No one has benefitted more from capitalism more than poor people. Their quality of life is a million times better than it used to be. Just compare the "poor" in the US to the rest of the world and you have to come to the conclusion that our system is better for poor people. How much more do you Bleeding Heart Liberals want us to do for these people, most of them ar lazy slobs anyway who just take, take and take!
Steve
As businessmen I would say their investment did not pay off.
Happens on both sides and probably to an equal degree. We have the best political system that money can buy because they are all for sale.
Why not raise the skill level and the minimum wage will not be an issue.
Tonight we will hear raise the minimum wage, tax the rich and it is all the GOP's fault.
2014 we will see few if any changes, gridlock will continue, both sides will blame the other and then they will go to dinner together and say what a great job they do.
Radically change the tax code so everyone pays their fair share and the rich cannot hide behind tax shelters. No one will propose that because all of the politicians are millionaires and they would only hurt themselves.
Just... yes it's true, the takers are just lazy slobs... like this crowd that is rapidly increasing the use of food stamps.
Except for the fact, even acknowledged by FOX News, that working people, as opposed to the unemployed slackers you seem to enjoy criticizing, are the majority of food stamp users.
Maybe you've just got it wrong...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/26/new-face-food-stamps-working-age-americans/
Steve the Peeve (misconceived and self-decieved),
For your information, most of the impoverished people of this country are the working poor earning subsistence wages - people who mow your damn lawn, pick up your damn garbage, flip your fucking hamburgers, and pick your damn fruits and vegetables under a hot sweltering sun – jobs which shiftless lazy bastards such as yourself consider beneath your contemptible dignity.
For the miserable excuse of a human being that you are, you are also an off-topic troll. This post about the Kochroaches, who take and take and treat millions of people worse than animals just to aggrandize themselves.
Go to hell, goodbye, and good riddance to you!
FYI:
Freedom Industries, the company that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people in West Virginia, was a distributor for Georgia-Pacific Chemicals – the same company acquired by the Kochroach brothers in 2005.
Within days, the number hospitalizations for symptoms from chemical exposure rose to 169. An estimated 700 people, reporting symptoms such as nausea and rashes, were admitted to various poison treatment centers throughout the state.
Within a week after the spill, Freedom Industries filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 to avoid an estimated 20 lawsuits and a Federal investigation.
Just Saying It Like It Is, Steph, Uncle Remus: I was wondering. If you're a devious troll on a con blog does anyone know you're a fake?
Or does the bear poop in the woods?
"Do they really know nothing about the conservative corporatist fascists..."
What about the progressive corporate fascists?
Demicans and Republicrats sit atop the best government money can buy.
Follow the money and open both eyes, my friends.
Anonymous@2:24:
"Demicans and Republicrats sit atop the best government money can buy."
Sorry. You're not going to get away with "both sides do it" in this particular case.
It is the GOP party, owned by Koch Brothers, Inc., who saturate our federal legislators with their money so that regulations that would have prevented the West Virginia disaster and the explosion at the fertilizer company in West, Texas, so that regulations could be repealed or ignored.
Democrats are for corporations being responsible citizens (after all, they're PEOPLE, according to the SCOTUS) and doesn't the GOP encourge personal responsibility?
Or is that admonition just for the moocher veterans, disabled, and children on food stamps?
The GOP has shown a wanton disregard for public safety and other aspects of our shared responsibilities, including the health and safety of girls, women, and children.
It isn't the Democrats who took away food stamps from the hungry.
Octo... Did I say I was a republican? Did I say I support the Koch brother and their agenda? Did I say I support corporatism? Did I say I support subsidies for the wealthy?
Nope, I didn't. And, I'll say no more.
A. Reader, yes, we already know that those blogs are populated with trolls who have several accounts and pretend to be different people. Yawn.
"Within a week after the spill, Freedom Industries filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 to avoid an estimated 20 lawsuits and a Federal investigation."
"Freedom Industries" is aptly named, (O)CT(O). Freedom to poison Americans and freedom to avoid responsibility!
Cue the next "Anonymous" to come here and tell us the Dim Oh cRATs do it too: 1..2...3...
//Capitalism has done more good for the poor than any other system in History!//
oh, shit&biscuits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1....that is the FUNNIEST thing I have heard in a week of below zero temps. Listen, I own a bridge between Jersy and New York....let's go throw the frisbee on it and hold up some traffic!
RN,
Sometimes your phrasing is so vague, it is hard to know where you stand. More clarity, please! I am hoping this is one threat against which we can stand shoulder to shoulder. I am counting on you.
"Cue the next [troll] ... "
Do we hafta? I am willing to conjecture that some of these anony-mals are psy-ops trolls employed by the Kochroach Continuum. Why give them a free forum? Make them pay .... about a billion dollars per word. Or else call the Orkin man.
Spending hundreds of millions to
avoid a tax hike; wonder what the cost/benefit ratio is?
My phrasing is by design I assure you. I'm quite sure you're familiar with Socrates.
I know my on mind. Beyond that I question everything. I have always believed, perhaps erroneously so, that is how I learn.
Let us just say on this particular issue... I'm more with ya than against ya. It ain't close, but I am not an advocate of redistribution of wealth. Looking forward with great anticipation to tonight's SOTU address. In my mind it will be a definining many, and many, and many moments.
I am quite sure you understand?
Oops, forgot to say this... my purpose is NOT to tell people WHAT to think. It is to get them to QUESTION what they are COMFORTABLE thinking.
Some get it, Some don't.
RN,
It is not a "redistribution of wealth" that I advocate; more like a "redistribution of theft" from the ill-begotten gains of chicanery and corruption that has infected our public life.
I think it's odd that a student cannot discharge loans through bankruptcy but the Koch's pollute the better portion of a state's water supply and just say "bankruptcy" and have done with it.
Of course those getting stuck with the "Full Ayn Rand" can merely pick another water source.
(O)CT(O)PUS said...
RN,
It is not a "redistribution of wealth" that I advocate
I do not advocate a redistribution of wealth, either. especially the one where Republicans advocate taking from the middle class to give to the rich. The trickle down shit the Republicans advocate is a joke. Now they call it 'job creation' well...in the long run, I am tired of getting pissed on and the only jobs created have been for corporate lawyers and accountants...
okjimm,
I'm working on it; look for it in a day or so.
Excerpt:
Republican critics have lashed out: they consider Buffet’s admission [i.e. Buffet's tax rate of 17.5% compared to his secretary who pays 35%] as an act of “class warfare.” One has to ask: Which side of this war is hurling the bombs?"
RN,
Yes, I am quite familiar with Socrates, the name of my daughter's Dem-Ohh-Cat; but you flatter yourself with an im-PURR-fect analogy.
Rarely is anythin PURR-fect. Even, and especially, Dem-Ohh-Cats. :-)
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