The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.

[Swede]

David H. Koch,and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes.


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.


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?fark#ixzz0xlvmW6bl

[flvegan]

1. Is that pronounced "kotch" or "kock"

I mean, are they a couple of "kotchs" or a couple "kocks"

[malaise]

2. Coke n/t

[wtmusic]

8. As in "Cokesucker". nt

[malaise]

10. LOL

DUzy :rofl:

[Historic NY]

3. Can we short sell them to hell?

[glitch]

4. When Libertarians take over government do they become Fascists?

How does that work?

[Lorien]

5. They aren't waging a war "against Obama"; they're big polluter anarchists

who are both destroying the planet and trying to undermine the U.S. government.

[readmoreoften]

6. Why bother? He's doing a great job undermining himself for free.

[wtmusic]

7. More products to not buy:

"The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among other products."

[Scurrilous]

9. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup: