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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot done often: Want to give a SHOUT OUT to Senator Harry Reid.
Senator Reid was successful in showing America exactly who David Koch was..in David's own words.
Well played Senator.
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Not done often: Want to give a SHOUT OUT to Senator Harry Reid. (Original Post)
DearAbby
Apr 2014
OP
What does the Mormonism have to do with Giving a Shout out to Harry Reid for Exposing
Cha
Apr 2014
#8
IDK? All Democratic praise OPs get some. Can't let Dems get happy. Gotta make DU suck!
freshwest
Apr 2014
#18
Thanks, DearAbby for a tribute to a quiet man who deals in facts. Still waters run deep. n/t
freshwest
Apr 2014
#15
loudsue
(14,087 posts)1. Um...what did he do? When? How? Link?
Video? I'm REALLY glad he did that, but, did he?
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. Reid has been roasting the Kochs from the senate floor.
On Wednesday David Koch published a very defensive op. ed. in the Times. Sen Moran read it from the senate floor.
--imm
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)4. Could you be more specific ...
there are so many Sen Morans.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)5. And so there are...
--imm
KT2000
(20,583 posts)2. Agree!
Keep it up Senator Reid!!
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)6. Valid link please! n/t
Triana
(22,666 posts)10. Here:
http://www.reid.senate.gov/koch-facts#.U0AZsa1dUi4
EDIT: Also follow Sen. Reid on Twitter: @SenatorReid (If you look at some of his recent tweets, he's been busily exposing the Kochs and their "operations" .
EDIT: Also follow Sen. Reid on Twitter: @SenatorReid (If you look at some of his recent tweets, he's been busily exposing the Kochs and their "operations" .
freshwest
(53,661 posts)12. VIDEO from link. Thanks, Triana!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)14. Headlines and links to more facts from Senator Reid's page:
The Facts About The Koch Brothers
1. The Kochs want to abolish Social Security.
In 1980, David Koch ran in and funded a presidential campaign that called Social Security The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme and promised to abolish and replace it. Read more.
2. The Kochs want to eliminate minimum wage laws.
According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth. Read more.
3. The Kochs are against extending emergency unemployment benefits.
It causes employers to face higher taxes, too, which discourages them from hiring new employees. Read more.
4. The Kochs spent $400 million on misleading attack ads in the last election cycle.
via Republic Report
A labyrinth of tax-exempt groups and limited-liability companies helps mask the sources of the money, much of which went to voter mobilization and television ads attacking President Obama and congressional Democrats, according to tax filings and campaign finance reports. Read more.
5. The Kochs want to put insurance companies back in charge of your health care.
It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans including their cautious leaders into cutting off financing for the entire federal government. The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Read more.
6. The Kochs are trying to dismantle our public education system.
National advocacy groups powered by the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors have found a new cause ripe with political promise Push to expand school choice by offering parents tax credits or vouchers to help pay tuition at private and religious schools. Next, rally the troops to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Then its on to eliminating teacher tenure. Read more.
7. The Kochs want to dismantle Medicare as we know it.
The Ryan plan to eliminate traditional Medicare was described in the media as a Tea Party proposal. But it would be more accurate to call it a Koch proposal, an ideological scheme to realize long-standing ultra-right hopes to privatize and radically shrink a major national social program. Read more.
8. The Kochs are against measures that would reduce the gap between the wages women and men earn for the same work.
IWF-affiliated writers have argued that the gender gap in income exists because of womens greater demand for flexibility, fewer hours, and less travel in their careers, rather than because of sexism. Read more.
9. The Kochs want even more tax breaks for themselves.
They are known for bankrolling conservative, Libertarian and Tea Party causes and became poster boys for corporate tax reform last year when an Obama Administration official suggested Koch is organized as an S Corp. and so pays no corporate level taxes. Read more.
UPDATE: The Kochs have issued a statement disputing the claim made by the official. The Kochs have supported the Ryan budget, which provides tax cuts for the wealthy and protects taxpayer subsidies for big businesses and oil companies.
kochs_unionmembers
via The New Republic
10. The Kochs made improper payments to win contracts in Africa, India and the Middle East. And they sold millions of dollars of equipment to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.
Internal company records show that Koch Industries used its foreign subsidiary to sidestep a U.S. trade ban barring American companies from selling materials to Iran. Koch-Glitsch offices in Germany and Italy continued selling to Iran until as recently as 2007, the records show. Read more.
11. The Kochs lobbied against recognition of formaldehyde as a cancer-causing carcinogen because it might be bad for their business.
A prominent philanthropist, cancer survivor, and American businessman, David Koch, has given millions to the cause of cancer research, while his companyKoch Industrieshas lobbied against formal recognition of formaldehyde as a carcinogen, The New Yorker reported in a piece published today. Read more.
12. The Kochs rank as one of Americas most toxic air polluters.
13.The Kochs have received over $88 million in government subsidies.
14. The Kochs have admitted they have a radical philosophy.
Charles Koch seems to have approached both business and politics with the deliberation of an engineer. To bring about social change, he told Doherty, requires a strategy that is vertically and horizontally integrated, spanning from idea creation to policy development to education to grassroots organizations to lobbying to litigation to political action. The project, he admitted, was extremely ambitious. We have a radical philosophy, he said. Read more.
http://www.reid.senate.gov/koch-facts#.U0AZsa1dUi4
Think what this means in terms of what the GOP has been doing. They all need to be voted out of office at the local, state and federal level. To claim both parties are doing the same, belies the path of the money being put out by the Koches. And the intent of each legislative action put forward by ALEC and the GOP.
1. The Kochs want to abolish Social Security.
In 1980, David Koch ran in and funded a presidential campaign that called Social Security The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme and promised to abolish and replace it. Read more.
2. The Kochs want to eliminate minimum wage laws.
According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth. Read more.
3. The Kochs are against extending emergency unemployment benefits.
It causes employers to face higher taxes, too, which discourages them from hiring new employees. Read more.
4. The Kochs spent $400 million on misleading attack ads in the last election cycle.
via Republic Report
A labyrinth of tax-exempt groups and limited-liability companies helps mask the sources of the money, much of which went to voter mobilization and television ads attacking President Obama and congressional Democrats, according to tax filings and campaign finance reports. Read more.
5. The Kochs want to put insurance companies back in charge of your health care.
It articulated a take-no-prisoners legislative strategy that had long percolated in conservative circles: that Republicans could derail the health care overhaul if conservative lawmakers were willing to push fellow Republicans including their cautious leaders into cutting off financing for the entire federal government. The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort. A group linked to the Kochs, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, disbursed more than $200 million last year to nonprofit organizations involved in the fight. Read more.
6. The Kochs are trying to dismantle our public education system.
National advocacy groups powered by the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors have found a new cause ripe with political promise Push to expand school choice by offering parents tax credits or vouchers to help pay tuition at private and religious schools. Next, rally the troops to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. Then its on to eliminating teacher tenure. Read more.
7. The Kochs want to dismantle Medicare as we know it.
The Ryan plan to eliminate traditional Medicare was described in the media as a Tea Party proposal. But it would be more accurate to call it a Koch proposal, an ideological scheme to realize long-standing ultra-right hopes to privatize and radically shrink a major national social program. Read more.
8. The Kochs are against measures that would reduce the gap between the wages women and men earn for the same work.
IWF-affiliated writers have argued that the gender gap in income exists because of womens greater demand for flexibility, fewer hours, and less travel in their careers, rather than because of sexism. Read more.
9. The Kochs want even more tax breaks for themselves.
They are known for bankrolling conservative, Libertarian and Tea Party causes and became poster boys for corporate tax reform last year when an Obama Administration official suggested Koch is organized as an S Corp. and so pays no corporate level taxes. Read more.
UPDATE: The Kochs have issued a statement disputing the claim made by the official. The Kochs have supported the Ryan budget, which provides tax cuts for the wealthy and protects taxpayer subsidies for big businesses and oil companies.
kochs_unionmembers
via The New Republic
10. The Kochs made improper payments to win contracts in Africa, India and the Middle East. And they sold millions of dollars of equipment to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.
Internal company records show that Koch Industries used its foreign subsidiary to sidestep a U.S. trade ban barring American companies from selling materials to Iran. Koch-Glitsch offices in Germany and Italy continued selling to Iran until as recently as 2007, the records show. Read more.
11. The Kochs lobbied against recognition of formaldehyde as a cancer-causing carcinogen because it might be bad for their business.
A prominent philanthropist, cancer survivor, and American businessman, David Koch, has given millions to the cause of cancer research, while his companyKoch Industrieshas lobbied against formal recognition of formaldehyde as a carcinogen, The New Yorker reported in a piece published today. Read more.
12. The Kochs rank as one of Americas most toxic air polluters.
13.The Kochs have received over $88 million in government subsidies.
14. The Kochs have admitted they have a radical philosophy.
Charles Koch seems to have approached both business and politics with the deliberation of an engineer. To bring about social change, he told Doherty, requires a strategy that is vertically and horizontally integrated, spanning from idea creation to policy development to education to grassroots organizations to lobbying to litigation to political action. The project, he admitted, was extremely ambitious. We have a radical philosophy, he said. Read more.
http://www.reid.senate.gov/koch-facts#.U0AZsa1dUi4
Think what this means in terms of what the GOP has been doing. They all need to be voted out of office at the local, state and federal level. To claim both parties are doing the same, belies the path of the money being put out by the Koches. And the intent of each legislative action put forward by ALEC and the GOP.
The CCC
(463 posts)7. Not done often: Want to give a SHOUT OUT to Senator Harry Reid.
Wait Wait he's every bit a Mormon as Mitt Romney.
Cha
(297,321 posts)8. What does the Mormonism have to do with Giving a Shout out to Harry Reid for Exposing
Koch shit?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)16. Nothing. It didn't help when Reid exposed Romney's lies, either. n/t
Cha
(297,321 posts)17. That's what I thought. Crickets from
poster.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)18. IDK? All Democratic praise OPs get some. Can't let Dems get happy. Gotta make DU suck!
But aren't the GOPigs squealing, though?
You can see it from the video I posted from the link by Triana. They are so transparent, they're 'clear.'
The GOP has not learned since the days of a great Democrat, who didn't mince words with them:
When Republicans stop lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson
I've been seeing more of our Democratic bumper stickers lately. The latest one said:
Democrats see the glass as half-empty. Republicans see the glass as all theirs.
And the Obama hater in my area seems to have given up, or at least his racist poster did. He put it along with a lot of GOP signs in his yard and an upstairs window at a busy intersection. You know, the 'Obama witch doctor' pic Libertarians think shows their fabled intellect (gross ignorance).
He kept it up after taking all the rest down in disgust the day after the 2012 election. Now it's all crumpled and rolled over itself between the window and the blinds. Bless his little hate filled heart, he haz a sad:
BWAHAHAHA!
Give 'em hell, Harry!
You can see it from the video I posted from the link by Triana. They are so transparent, they're 'clear.'
The GOP has not learned since the days of a great Democrat, who didn't mince words with them:
When Republicans stop lying about us, we'll stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson
I've been seeing more of our Democratic bumper stickers lately. The latest one said:
Democrats see the glass as half-empty. Republicans see the glass as all theirs.
And the Obama hater in my area seems to have given up, or at least his racist poster did. He put it along with a lot of GOP signs in his yard and an upstairs window at a busy intersection. You know, the 'Obama witch doctor' pic Libertarians think shows their fabled intellect (gross ignorance).
He kept it up after taking all the rest down in disgust the day after the 2012 election. Now it's all crumpled and rolled over itself between the window and the blinds. Bless his little hate filled heart, he haz a sad:
BWAHAHAHA!
Give 'em hell, Harry!
Cha
(297,321 posts)19. THanks fresh.. now that gop crybrat image is more
like it! I don't like seeing the sweet little kids who are only crying as a symbol for teabagger whine.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)20. Agreed on all of that, really. n/t
malaise
(269,054 posts)9. Harry was a boxer
he knows a thing or two about setting up opponents before the KO!!
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)11. a dem that sometimes has a spine--yes well done
G_j
(40,367 posts)13. 'Somebody has been putting some starch in Harry's shorts'
(Norman Goldman)
freshwest
(53,661 posts)15. Thanks, DearAbby for a tribute to a quiet man who deals in facts. Still waters run deep. n/t