Kochs Rebrand Themselves As Champions Of Poor, Fight To Slash Wages And Eliminate Their Health Care

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Kochs Rebrand Themselves As Champions Of Poor, Fight To Slash Wages And Eliminate Their Health Care

by Alice Ollstein at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/03/3687152/kochs-rebrand-themselves-as-champions-of-the-poor-rightful-heirs-to-civil-rights-movement/

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Over the weekend, at a political conference organized by the Koch Brothers where mega-donors and Republican presidential candidates rubbed elbows, Charles Koch compared his network’s influence over U.S. elections to past “freedom movements.”

“Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement,” he said. “All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”

Koch also repeatedly cited his crusade for shrinking the government as a gift to the nation’s poor, as well as his organization’s criminal justice reform push.

Yet the Koch Brothers’ have a checkered record on civil rights, and continue to support policies that harm voters of color.

The brothers have long backed efforts to make all states demand a voter ID at the polls, a policy that disproportionately suppresses the voters of people of color, the elderly, students, and the poor — all demographics that tend to vote for Democrats.



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1. I swear. The Kochs are running in this election too. It is turning into a cult of personality. They

are placing themselves as the big picture. Religion or science belong as the big picture. The Sun certainly. Nature too. Our ancestors. The universe. The Enlightenment. Not the Kochs. A little humility please.

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4. No she's not. She's not saying only she can save the world.

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3. The parts of government they want to drown in a bathtub. Poor, sick, elderly, pensioners.

They are going to need a bigger bathtub and write it off as a business expense.

[moondust]

5. Koch "freedom" = anarchy.

The "freedom" to starve to death in a gutter somewhere in freezing weather, choking on black air and gagging on slimy water.

But the profits are maximized for billionaires so...

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7. There has to be a mass die off so that the rich can lives for a thousand years. They will be the

only ones who can afford the antidote to pollution and dose of endless life once medicare is gutted. Just try posting anything about Africa and helping it. Some trolls always gets online and starts talking about how we don't need African babies to survive better. Though they are not quite so obvious about it. But they are dividing up who should live and who should die in their warped minds. As if if Jesus were alive he would choose the kochs to live forever of all kinds o human beings.

[a kennedy]

6. Sorry, but f*ck the Kocks....... eom

[Gothmog]

8. The concept that the top one tenth of the top one percent's civil rights are being violated is wrong

The Kochs are idiots if they think people will buy this crap