If you still dont believe that the Republican party is being funded By a select group of Billionaires I suggest you read this whole article..........From its very beginning, the Tea Party was an AstroTurf movement funded and supported by the Kochs and their allies. David Koch was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential candidate in 1980. According to a 1984 New York Times article, he ran on a platform of getting rid of public schools, welfare payments, Social Security, rent control, the I.R.S, the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Border Patrol and the regulatory agencies. Regarding his interest in making political donations, he told the NYT, “I like to give on a scale where I can see impact and get involved.” He never got anywhere near winning national office. But Koch did inherit a fortune from his father’s oil business. Today, he is worth over $45 billion. In the late 1990s, the Kochs came under investigation for stealing over a billion dollars of oil from Native American lands. Their friends in Congress defended them and the charges were dropped. Members of Congress who inquired as to why they were not charged soon found themselves no longer in Congress. Though David Koch never managed to get elected to national office to dismantle the American government to increase his profits, he has managed, through legalized political money laundering, to get a small army of Congressmen to do his bidding. It is this group of businessmen and politicians, and their money, which spearheaded the effort to extort the US government.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:50:17 +0000