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KansDem

(28,498 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 08:31 AM Jul 2012

“I want my fair share, and that’s all of it.”

From "Top Ten Koch Facts"

http://my.firedoglake.com/robertgreenwald/tag/koch-industries/

Here are a few--

1. Koch Industries, which the brothers own, is one of the top ten polluters in the United States — which perhaps explains why the Kochs have given $60 million to climate denial groups between 1997 and 2010.

4. The Koch fortune has its origins in engineering contracts with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.

6. A Huffington Post source who was at a three-day retreat of conservative billionaires said the Koch brothers pledged to donate $60 million to defeat President Obama in 2012 and produce pledges of $40 million more from others at the retreat.

7. Since 2000, the Kochs have collected almost $100 million in government contracts, mostly from the Department of Defense.


No. 10 caught my eye--

10. The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs accused Koch Oil of scheming to steal $31 million of crude oil from Native Americans. Although the company claimed it was accidental, a former executive in this operation said Charles Koch had known about it and had responded to the overages by saying, “I want my fair share, and that’s all of it.”

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“I want my fair share, and that’s all of it.” (Original Post) KansDem Jul 2012 OP
They've got their own theme song dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #1
This despite the fact that their net worths have gone up $25 billion since he's been in office . . . HughBeaumont Jul 2012 #2

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
2. This despite the fact that their net worths have gone up $25 billion since he's been in office . . .
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 08:37 AM
Jul 2012

. . . and they've laid off thousands of workers during that 25-thousand-fold lottery increase.

Fuckers.

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