Koch Brothers' fortune doubles during Obama years

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3. They are libertarians...any regulation is too much regulation...

Has nothing to with Obama. They love extractive businesses. Materials for almost free that they turn into products they can sell for huge profits while leaving behind destruction and piles of pollution. Now, if there were no government regulations about the toxic by products they would make even more money!

Take West, a small town in Texas, for example. With the explosion of a fertilizer plant, West experienced the fall-out from the “economic freedoms” so beloved by the Koch brothers and the forces in their empire. Here is what that absence of regulation produced: Fourteen dead, 180 injured, and destruction of a major part of the town where the fertilizer plant that held a stockpile of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer so volatile it’s been used by terrorists to build truck bombs, exploded...

....At the time accounts of the tragedy appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the country, the New York Times had a column about how Charles and David Koch were holding one of their seminars for like-minded industrialists and wealthy libertarians who oppose regulation, love the Tea Party, and do what they can to reduce the size and functions of government, including its critical regulatory function. The Kochs and their ilk want much less oversight of industry and little or no environmental regulation. Why? Their views dovetail with--guess--their corporate interests!

http://blog.nj.com/njv_linda_stamato/2014/02/the_koch_brothers_rabid_righte.html