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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: MrsSmith on October 15, 2012, 05:29:38 AM
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http://www.kansas.com/2012/10/13/2528807/the-kochs-quest-to-save-america.html
{I admit surprise that the leftist Eagle managed to publish a nearly complimentary article about the Koch Brothers, with only minor sprinkling of lies and hatred...}
In January 2009, just days after the inauguration of President Obama, Charles and David Koch met in their company headquarters in Wichita with their longtime political strategist, Rich Fink.
The country was headed toward bankruptcy, they agreed.
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The Kochs say the price for their political involvement has been high: Death threats, cyberattacks on their business, hundreds of news stories criticizing them, calls for boycotts of the company’s consumer goods, and what the brothers see as ongoing and unjustified public attacks from the Obama administration.
The Kochs aren’t finished. Win or lose in November, they plan to start a new fight. They are organizing dozens of business and grassroots groups to build support for eliminating all corporate and agricultural subsidies.
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The Kochs believe the country is racing inevitably to economic disaster. They blame Republicans and Democrats alike.
They say that overspending, coupled with future shortfalls in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, along with interest on the national debt, will push the country into bankruptcy, just as surely as a family that consistently spends more than it makes will end up broke.
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The interest alone that the United States will owe to China in 2025 is projected to be enough to fund that country’s entire military, Fink said.
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“Businesses, rather than focusing on finding what products and services will add value for people, will improve their quality of life, go to the government and get subsidies, mandates and other things, so the economy is no longer directed by individual consumers, but it’s directed politically,†Charles Koch said. “And we’ve seen what happens to societies that go there. And so that’s happening to this society.â€
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But Fink says the Kochs aren’t doing anything for their cause that labor unions and Hollywood aren’t doing for Obama and Democrats.
“If you look at the money that comes in from the labor unions, plaintiffs attorneys, whatever, it far exceeds the resources coming in from this side,†he said. “So I would say that if it is one family or a group of people, the point of view we are trying to represent is underfunded, not overfunded...
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“We believe America is at a tipping point,†Fink said. “That with our debt, with our government spending, if you look at the economics of it, it is totally unsustainable.... We are in the process of destroying America, of destroying the American dream. We believe just like the... American revolutionaries did, there is going to be a small group of people who stand up and fight to save the country. Otherwise we have lost it.â€
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/10/13/2528807/the-kochs-quest-to-save-america.html#storylink=cpy
This is a long article, but worth the time to read