On 10/03/2011 11:35 AM, richardwillytexwilliams wrote: > > Bhairitu: >> Everything you ever wanted to know about the crooked >> Koch brothers and more: >> > Oh, my Gawd!!! > > "The brothers have backed a foundation that has trained > thousands of Tea Party activists. The Tea Party, a > popular movement whose name stands for Taxed Enough > Already, has grown into a potent force in national > politics. Sixty representatives of Congress, out of a > total of 435, identify themselves as Tea Party members." > > Bloomberg: > http://tinyurl.com/6doxrfz
Right above what Willy quoted: "The Koch brothers have vaulted into the American political spotlight in recent years. Koch Industries has spent more than $50 million to lobby in Washington since 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks political donations. The company opposed derivatives regulation and greenhouse gas limits." These assholes tried to get a proposition passed in California so they could pollute our air more. Californians told them to go fuck themselves. And more from the article: "Internal company documents show that the company made those sales through foreign subsidiaries, thwarting a U.S. trade ban. Koch Industries units have also rigged prices with competitors, lied to regulators and repeatedly run afoul of environmental regulations, resulting in five criminal convictions since 1999 in the U.S. and Canada." And: "These are long-standing tenets for the Kochs. In 1980, David Koch ran for vice president on the Libertarian ticket, pledging to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve System, welfare, minimum wage laws and federal agencies -- including the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. " So these two goons are real crooks. And that's why we call them and their supporters Kochroaches.;-)
