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guyfromla

(52 posts)
11. The Koch Whores
Wed Oct 1, 2014, 12:26 PM
Oct 2014

I just finished watching the PBS documentary by Ken Burns on the Roosevelt’s. And yesterday Forbes came out with the top 100 richest persons list in USA, Koch brothers wealth swelled to $84(42+42) billion. I saw it steadily increasing from year to year - just like other Billionaires. But when almost 80% of the top 100 have pledged 50% of their wealth to poverty alleviation in US and the world through “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”, Koch brothers has done the exact opposite. They have pulled their shenanigans to put their puppets in the Supreme Court and made sure so called "Conservative Tea Par tiers" go to Congress. They have decimated the states that they operate in and destroyed Canada with their toxic waste derived from tar pit sand oilfields. History has so profoundly remembered the Roosevelt’s and the same will happen to Koch’s – they will forever be treated like the sleazebags they are – in the pit of history as the dirtiest, most manipulative family on this nation. I hope their children and grand-children can stomach this ill-gotten wealth properly – as history has shown eternity is not kind to these kind of family. Anyone remembers what happened to the Shah’s of Iran or Ershad in Bangladesh???

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Know your One Percenters... [View all] MrScorpio Oct 2014 OP
Vote BLUE on November 4th! BlueCaliDem Oct 2014 #1
+1 freshwest Oct 2014 #4
Great graphic! Brigid Oct 2014 #2
Kick the Vote! sheshe2 Oct 2014 #3
Blue is doing nothing to stop the 1%. Kennedy was a long time ago. The Kennedy's fought for unions. liberal_at_heart Oct 2014 #5
Good one, MrScorpio! calimary Oct 2014 #6
That is great Gothmog Oct 2014 #7
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT Oct 2014 #8
KnR Thanks for posting! nt chknltl Oct 2014 #9
Facts like these Jamaal510 Oct 2014 #10
The Koch Whores guyfromla Oct 2014 #11
And don't let the right just "demonize" the socialists... Kochs owe their wealth to one! cascadiance Oct 2014 #13
k&r. Thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick Oct 2014 #12
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