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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on March 27, 2014, 02:21:12 PM
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kentuck (70,522 posts)
Koch Brothers vs George Soros? (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024736688)
I was listening to the incoherent Joe Scarborough this morning when I turned on the TV. "What is the difference in David Koch - who donates to the Lincoln Center and other charitable organizations - giving money to political causes and George Soros giving money to political causes," Joe asked?
Well, there is a difference.
Koch brothers donate to people and organizations that hurt our environment, that dislike unions, that dislike public school teachers, that dislike any increase in the minimum wage, that hate "Obamacare", that want to see even more wealth go to the top 1%, as our middle class continues to shrink.
That's the difference, Joe.
And that's a bad thing? You are really just spouting all of your class warfare talking points, which is getting really tiresome.
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I don't believe the Koch brothers really exist.
Liberals made them up as a foil.
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I don't believe the Koch brothers really exist.
Liberals made them up as a foil.
The Kochs make their money in large part by selling consumer products in a competitive marketplace. Soros makes his by ****ing with entire nations:
On September 16, 1992, Black Wednesday, Soros' fund sold short more than $10 billion in pounds,[25] profiting from the UK government's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency.
Finally, the UK withdrew from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound. Soros's profit on the bet was estimated at over $1 billion.[31] He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England".[32] In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.
On Monday, October 26, 1992, The Times quoted Soros as saying: "Our total position by Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10 billion. We planned to sell more than that. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he would borrow nearly $15 billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that was about how much we wanted to sell."
So take the dicks out of your ass and eat them, kentuck. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Currency_speculation)
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Soros funds groups to attack the American way of life. He also funds groups to attack the Koch Brothers for running ads that support the American way of life.
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kentuck (70,522 posts)
Koch Brothers vs George Soros?
I was listening to the incoherent Joe Scarborough this morning when I turned on the TV. "What is the difference in David Koch - who donates to the Lincoln Center and other charitable organizations - giving money to political causes and George Soros giving money to political causes," Joe asked?
Well, there is a difference.
Koch brothers donate to people and organizations that hurt our environment, that dislike unions, that dislike public school teachers, that dislike any increase in the minimum wage, that hate "Obamacare", that want to see even more wealth go to the top 1%, as our middle class continues to shrink.
That's the difference, Joe.
In other words the difference is that you simply disagree with their beliefs and opinions so that is grounds to destroy them in a leftist mind.
Kentuck proves once again that ALL leftists are tyrants at heart and he is still in the top 1% of the stupidest of the stupid at the DUmp.
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Didn't Soros aid the Nazis?
That's one big difference.
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Didn't Soros aid the Nazis?
That's one big difference.
Maybe, but since Koch starts with a K, it's easy to write 'KKKoch' and presto, they're racists.
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By the way DUmbfuk Kentuk...how many "regular people" were hurt by Soros currency speculation?
Currency speculation
On September 16, 1992, Black Wednesday, Soros' fund sold short more than $10 billion in pounds,[25] profiting from the UK government's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency.
Finally, the UK withdrew from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound. Soros's profit on the bet was estimated at over $1 billion.[31] He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England".[32] In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.
On Monday, October 26, 1992, The Times quoted Soros as saying: "Our total position by Black Wednesday had to be worth almost $10 billion. We planned to sell more than that. In fact, when Norman Lamont said just before the devaluation that he would borrow nearly $15 billion to defend sterling, we were amused because that was about how much we wanted to sell."
Stanley Druckenmiller, who traded under Soros, originally saw the weakness in the pound. "Soros' contribution was pushing him to take a gigantic position."[33][34]
In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, the Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir bin Mohamad accused Soros of using the wealth under his control to punish the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for welcoming Myanmar as a member. Following on a history of antisemitic remarks, Mahathir made specific reference to Soros' Jewish background ("It is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge"[35]) and implied Soros was orchestrating the crash as part of a larger Jewish conspiracy. Nine years later, in 2006, Mahathir met with Soros and afterwards stated that he accepted that Soros had not been responsible for the crisis.[36] In 1998's The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered Soros explained his role in the crisis as follows:
The financial crisis that originated in Thailand in 1997 was particularly unnerving because of its scope and severity. ... By the beginning of 1997, it was clear to Soros Fund Management that the discrepancy between the trade account and the capital account was becoming untenable. We sold short the Thai baht and the Malaysian ringgit early in 1997 with maturities ranging from six months to a year. (That is, we entered into contracts to deliver at future dates Thai Baht and Malaysian ringgit that we did not currently hold.) Subsequently Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia accused me of causing the crisis, a wholly unfounded accusation. We were not sellers of the currency during or several months before the crisis; on the contrary, we were buyers when the currencies began to decline – we were purchasing ringgits to realize the profits on our earlier speculation. (Much too soon, as it turned out. We left most of the potential gain on the table because we were afraid that Mahathir would impose capital controls. He did so, but much later.)[37]
The nominal U.S. dollar GDP of the ASEAN fell by $9.2 billion in 1997 and $218.2 billion (31.7%) in 1998.
Economist Paul Krugman is critical of Soros' effect on financial markets.
"[N]obody who has read a business magazine in the last few years can be unaware that these days there really are investors who not only move money in anticipation of a currency crisis, but actually do their best to trigger that crisis for fun and profit. These new actors on the scene do not yet have a standard name; my proposed term is 'Soroi'."[38]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
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Maybe, but since Koch starts with a K, it's easy to write 'KKKoch' and presto, they're racists.
He pretended to be a Christian and helped confiscate property from the Jews. His friends got shipped to death camps while he helped take their property.
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Didn't Soros aid the Nazis?
That's one big difference.
As a young teen, he ratted out Jewish neighbors, friends and even relatives to Nazi occupiers for "rewards". His explanation was, "If I didn't do it, somebody else would." That was in his autobiography (http://www.amazon.de/autobiography-Geschichte-George-Soros-Fremdsprachige-B%C3%BCcher/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=autobiography&page=1&rh=n%3A65140011%2Ck%3Aautobiography%2Cp_lbr_books_authors_browse-bin%3AGeorge%20Soros). He's a real piece of cockroach shit. Yah, a class act! (http://www.conservativecave.com/Smileys/default/censored.gif)
The DUmmies love Nazis.
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Ill tell you the difference, DUmmies.
One makes money off of intentionally tanking markets to crash economies, the others invest in businesses to grow the economy.
Ask the British. They know what Soros does.
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Ill tell you the difference, DUmmies.
One makes money off of intentionally tanking markets to crash economies, the others invest in businesses to grow the economy.
Ask the British. They know what Soros does.
H5 +
Suck on that DUmbasses!
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Didn't Soros aid the Nazis?
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Maybe, but no where near as much as Joe Kennedy did.
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Ill tell you the difference, DUmmies.
One makes money off of intentionally tanking markets to crash economies, the others invest in businesses to grow the economy.
Ask the British. They know what Soros does.
Well, and one sells toilet paper, while the other is what's on it after you wipe your ass.
Cindie
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Didn't Soros aid the Nazis?
That's one big difference.
yes, yes he did. He also said it didn't bother him that he did it, and that he liked playing God.
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (You won't believe all these and how anti-American a lot of them are)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237
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yes, yes he did. He also said it didn't bother him that he did it, and that he liked playing God.
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (You won't believe all these and how anti-American a lot of them are)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237
Still doing his part to aid the Nazi cause.