Charles Koch: $34,000 puts you in the top 1%

[JDPriestly]

41. The problem is the way our food and other commodities are marketed.

If we bought food straight from farmers at a town market, if it weren't transported across the country or across the world, if it weren't packaged in paper and plastic, we could live on a lot less money.

If we did not have a municipal sewer system, computers, electric lights at night, heated homes, several changes of (often new) clothing, leather shoes, refrigerators and freezers, more than one pot or pan, a gas or electric stove, an asphalt or tile roof (something other than straw), glass windowpanes, cars, etc., we could live on a whole lot less money.

If we did not have good medical care or education, think of the money our government could save.

That is the Koch brothers' vision for Americans -- a life without the things our forefathers worked for.

If $34,000 per year is the 1% of the world, in what percentile are the Koch brothers?

And if we lived like people do in most of the world, we would not be able to buy their products, and they, too, would be poorer.