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kpete

(71,961 posts)
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 07:20 PM Mar 2014

WHAT’S REALLY BEHIND THE KOCH ATTACKS ON DEMOCRATS Hint: it’s not about healthcare.

The Kochs’ election strategy is a sort of bait-and-switch, since their stake in public policy is, in fact, only tangentially related to healthcare. Anti-Obamacare messaging is part of a larger campaign against government regulation that threatens the Kochs’ bottom line—most critically, in response to climate change. “We have a broader cautionary tale,” Tim Phillips, the president of AFP, told The New York Times. “The president’s out there touting billions of dollars on climate change. We want Americans to think about what they promised with the last social welfare boondoggle and look at what the actual result is.”



more:
http://www.thenation.com/article/179034/whats-really-behind-koch-attacks-democrats
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