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The Magistrate

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1. The Money People At the Top Of the Republican Pyramid, Sir, Are As Nuts As The Base of It

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Original post)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 01:56 PM

Dec 2012

The exposure of the billionaire backers this past election cycle has demonstrated that.

Political insanity is no bar to business success, nor is economic insanity any bar to maintenance and increase of inherited wealth.

Some of these people took it in at daddy's knee; the Koch's, for instance, are scions of a man behind the formation of the John Birch Society.

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The Money People At the Top Of the Republican Pyramid, Sir, Are As Nuts As The Base of It The Magistrate Dec 2012 #1

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I do think there is clearly a third group.... RevStPatrick Dec 2012 #3