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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1310442" data-attributes="member: 40736"><p>A well reasoned essay on the Koch brothers from Bernie Sanders:</p><p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292912/-Who-are-the-Koch-Brothers-and-What-do-They-Want" target="_blank">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292912/-Who-are-the-Koch-Brothers-and-What-do-They-Want</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fair use excerpt:</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Here is what every American should be deeply concerned about. The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. And now with Citizens United (which is allowing them to pour unlimited sums of money into the political process) their power is greater than ever.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>And let’s be very clear. Their goal is not only to defund Obamacare, cut Social Security, oppose an increase in the minimum wage or cut federal funding for education. Their world view and eventual goal is much greater than all of that. They want to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick and the most vulnerable in this country. Every piece of legislation! </em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>The truth is that the agenda of the Koch brothers is to move this country from a democratic society with a strong middle class to an oligarchic form of society in which the economic and political life of the nation are controlled by a handful of billionaire families."</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1310442, member: 40736"] A well reasoned essay on the Koch brothers from Bernie Sanders: [url]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/18/1292912/-Who-are-the-Koch-Brothers-and-What-do-They-Want[/url] Fair use excerpt: [I] "Here is what every American should be deeply concerned about. The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. And now with Citizens United (which is allowing them to pour unlimited sums of money into the political process) their power is greater than ever. And let’s be very clear. Their goal is not only to defund Obamacare, cut Social Security, oppose an increase in the minimum wage or cut federal funding for education. Their world view and eventual goal is much greater than all of that. They want to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick and the most vulnerable in this country. Every piece of legislation! The truth is that the agenda of the Koch brothers is to move this country from a democratic society with a strong middle class to an oligarchic form of society in which the economic and political life of the nation are controlled by a handful of billionaire families."[/I] [/QUOTE]
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