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Why is it that Libertarians never come out and defend the Koch brothers?
10-12-2012, 08:03 AM
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Why is it that Libertarians never come out and defend the Koch brothers?
The Koch Foundations spends tens of millions of dollars funding Libertarian ideas, yet when the media and OWS is criticizing, you never see the Libertarians stand up for privatizing social security and getting rid of public school systems, in fact the Libertarians are standing right next to these protesters?

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10-12-2012, 08:11 AM
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The thing about Libertarians that differs from Republicans and Democrats is they don't let their party do their thinking for them.

Republicans and Democrats tend to share the ideology of their party to a tee, while Libertarians have no problem disagreeing with other Libertarians.

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10-12-2012, 08:11 AM
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true libertarians know that the Tea Party is a joke
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10-12-2012, 08:11 AM
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<The Koch Foundations spends tens of millions of dollars funding Libertarian ideas>

Name one?
 
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10-12-2012, 08:11 AM
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Koch facts

Accordingly, here are 10 facts that every American should know about who the Kochs are and what they’re doing to our country.

1. Koch Industries, which the brothers own, is one of the top ten polluters in the United States — which perhaps explains why the Kochs have given $60 million to climate denial groups between 1997 and 2010.

2. The Kochs are the oil and gas industry’s biggest donors to the congressional committee with oversight of the hazardous Keystone XL oil pipeline. They and their employees gave more than $300,000 to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2010 alone.

3. From 1998-2008, Koch-controlled foundations gave more than $196 million to organizations that favor polices that would financially enrich the two brothers. In addition, Koch Industries spent $50 million on lobbying and some $8 million in PAC contributions.

4. The Koch fortune has its origins in engineering contracts with Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.

5. The Kochs are suing to take over the Cato Institute, which has accused the Kochs of attempting to destroy the group’s identity as an independent, libertarian think and align it more closely with a partisan agenda.

6. A Huffington Post source who was at a three-day retreat of conservative billionaires said the Koch brothers pledged to donate $60 million to defeat President Obama in 2012 and produce pledges of $40 million more from others at the retreat.

7. Since 2000, the Kochs have collected almost $100 million in government contracts, mostly from the Department of Defense.

8. Koch Industries has an annual production capacity of 2.2 billion pounds of the carcinogen formaldehyde. The company has worked to keep it from being classified as a carcinogen even though David Koch is a prostate cancer survivor.

9. The Koch brothers’ combined fortune of roughly $50 billion is exceeded only by that of Bill Gates in the United States.
10. The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs accused Koch Oil of scheming to steal $31 million of crude oil from Native Americans. Although the company claimed it was accidental, a former executive in this operation said Charles Koch had known about it and had responded to the overages by saying, “I want my fair share, and that’s all of it.”

That last quote — “I want my fair share, and that’s all of it” — encapsulates the unbridled greed driving the Kochs’ political activism and business dealings. Democracy cannot thrive with so much power being in the hands of men like this. If we care about democracy, we have to work to take it back.
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