Speaking of the Koch family, and their "contributions" to this country....

[guillaumeb]

there is this to remember:

John Birch Society Celebrates Koch Family For Their Role In Founding The Hate Group

Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch have been dominant financiers for conservative front groups and nonprofits for nearly three decades. Their money has flowed to organizations dedicated to lobbying for corporate and upper income tax cuts, as well as to groups responsible for mobilizing Tea Party rallies against President Obama. But the Koch family’s association with fringe right-wing groups began a generation earlier with Fred Koch, the patriarch of the clan.

Fred not only founded the company now known as Koch Industries, he also was a founding member of the John Birch Society. As a founding board member, Fred helped engineer a hysterical wave of attacks on labor, intellectuals, public education, liberal clergy members, and other pillars of society he viewed as a threat. Birchers decried everyone from former President Eisenhower to water utility administrators as pawns in a global communist conspiracy. In the last two years, as the Koch name has become synonymous with right-wing plutocracy in the United States, the Koch family has played down its relation to the Birchers.

To read more:

https://thinkprogress.org/john-birch-society-celebrates-koch-family-for-their-role-in-founding-the-hate-group-b8fd2ac8b379/

David Koch is merely following in a far right family tradition.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. K&R Thanks for emphasizing this point.

[kimbutgar]

2. Growing up my Dad didn't allow us to drink Welches grape juice because they were John Birch

Society contributors. To that end I make an effort to never buy a Koch industry product. But they have large holdings.

[guillaumeb]

3. Another good reason to drink wine, but never grape juice.

The Koch tentacles are everywhere.

And they have purchased many politicians.

[kimbutgar]

4. I love my wine from the vine!