HANDLERITE NA RANDROIDITE LJUPCO ZIKOV MINCO JORDANOV If the Koch brothers didnt exist, the left would have to invent them. Theyre the plutocrats from central casting – oil-and-gas billionaires ready to buy any congressman, fund any lie, fight any law, bust any union, despoil any landscape, or shirk any (tax) burden to push their free-market religion and pump up their profits. But no need to invent – Charles and David Koch are the real deal. Over the past 30-some years, theyve poured more than 100 million dollars into a sprawling network of foundations, think tanks, front groups, advocacy organizations, lobbyists and GOP lawmakers, all to the glory of their hard-core libertarian agenda. They dont oppose big government so much as government – taxes, environmental protections, safety-net programs, public education: the whole bit. (By all accounts, the Kochs are true believers; they really buy that road- to-serfdom stuff about the the holiness of free markets. Still, you cant help but notice how neatly their philosophy lines up with their business interests.) They like to think of elected politicians as merely actors playing out a script, and themselves as supplying the themes and words for the scripts . Imagine Karl Rove’s strategic cunning, crossed with Ron Paul’s screw-the-poor ideology, and hooked up to Warren Buffetts checking account, and you’re halfway there.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:22:56 +0000
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