Billionaire Koch Brothers Spending Millions To Deny Health Coverage To Low-Income Americans

[Martin Eden]

44. They're doing it because they want "Obamacare" to fail.

They want to be able to point at how many Americans this "socialism" failed to cover, and they'll be thrilled if they caused it to fail.

They want "Obamacare" to fail because they are extreme rightwingers motivated by ideology and by personal greed. The teabaggers in Congress lost their recent battle, but the war goes on. They have vast wealth at their disposal and will do whatever they can to dismantle the federal social safety net. Ultimately they want to erase not only this latest "big government" program, but LBJ's Great Society and FDR's New Deal as well.

These Bircher types were against Social Security and Medicare from the start, and want to destroy those programs.

They know they can't do it through normal legislative means, and that these programs will continue as long as there are funds to keep them going.

The only way these programs can be destroyed (and government shrunk & drowned in a bathtub) is with Huge. Budget. Deficits.

These ideological One Percenters are not fiscal conervatives. Deficits skyrocket under Republican presidents not because they embrace flawed economic theories. Deficits are absolutely essential to their agenda.


And we should never forget that.