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    REPORT: How Koch Industries Makes Billions By Demanding Bailouts And Taxpayer Subsidies (Part 1)

    http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/...-koch-welfare/
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    lol @ shillprogress.

    Their job is to illuminate the divide they live off of.

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    lol @ shillprogress.

    Their job is to illuminate the divide they live off of.
    Or it could be that think progress is a little more complex than your myopic world view will allow.

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    Yeah...they're every bit as complex as fox news.

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    Yeah...they're every bit as complex as fox news.
    ..and the Koch Brothers apparently..

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    It all makes sense now.
    Fake leftist sent to piss off the natives and attract the jackasses, discrediting leftism the whole way with his off-kilter antics and his completely unearned hauteur?

    Tempting. But probably ultimately mistaken.

    (For better and for worse, boutons seems to be sincere.)
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    ..and the Koch Brothers apparently..
    It was pointed out that the Koch Bros have donated, heavily, to what is ostensibly, a progressive cause. Please show me where Thinkprogress has championed a conservative cause and you might have a case. As it stands, you are, again, demonstrably wrong.

    And lol @ comparing a progressive blog to a billionaire. Lrn2contextualize.

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    T: How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting

    http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/...luter-bailout/

    Can anybody refute these articles about Kock Bros with other than your opinions? Didn't think so.

    Note the oil-owned Perry is fighting the EPA about pollution to protect the TX petrochemical corps' profits. No EPA, a Repug objective, would turn TX into a disease-cluster like Lake Charles LA and the lower Mississippi.

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    Show me where Kock Bros donated to anything that didn't protect or increase Kock Bros profits?

    Donating to a progressive cause doesn't mean the Kock Bros are progressive in any sense, but I understand how your faulty logic works, so no problem.

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    lol...show me were donating to the ACLU pumped up their bottom line. You're the one making the accusation here, boutonski. Back it up....if you can.

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    Show me where Kock Bros donated to anything that didn't protect or increase Kock Bros profits?

    Donating to a progressive cause doesn't mean the Kock Bros are progressive in any sense, but I understand how your faulty logic works, so no problem.
    Feel free to go ahead and lay out your Koch Bros business case for each one of these investments.

    1. decriminalize drugs,
    2. legalize gay marriage,
    3. repeal the Patriot Act,
    4. end the police state,
    5. cut defense spending.

    Wikipedia shows Koch Family Foundations supporting causes like:

    1. CATO Ins ute
    2. Reason Foundation
    3. cancer research
    4. ballet

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    Feel free to go ahead and lay out your Koch Bros business case for each one of these investments.
    As soon as thinkprogress completes this assignment, boutons will regurgitate it for us.

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    Feel free to go ahead and lay out your Koch Bros business case for each one of these investments.
    1. VRWC
    2. VRWC
    3. VRWC
    4. VRWC
    5. VRWC

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    The Koch brothers unwittingly subsidized their enemies

    The Koch brothers gave $20 million to the ACLU to fight the Patriot Act, but only $43,000 to Scott Walker’s $11 million campaign for governor of Wisconsin. Now, these libertarian brothers who support drug legalization and cuts in defense spending have been falsely branded as the puppetmasters behind Walker and Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (The Kochs have never met or spoken with Walker. They’re Libertarians, not conservatives. One of the Koch brothers was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee in 1980, running against Reagan).

    ....

    The Kochs have given millions to political causes, but this is dwarfed by the $600 million they have donated to non-political charities like the arts and medical research. They seem to be opposed to Obama partly because of his support for corporate welfare for the Kochs' compe ors, and Obama’s record-setting deficit spending, which the Kochs view as a long-run threat to the country’s financial stability and thus their own businesses. (Charles G. Koch elaborated on this recently in the Wall Street Journal).

    MORE:

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/...-their-enemies

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    WI State Pension Fund Owns Koch Stock

    Truth is stranger than fiction.

    http://sweetness-light.com/archive/w...wns-koch-stock

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    "Obama’s record-setting deficit spending"

    Same Old Lie

    The deficit is mostly:

    1 spending on REPUG wars

    2. reduced revenues from REPUG tax cuts

    3. reduced revenues from the REPUG-enabled Bankster Great Depression

    Lie, Meet Slap Truth.

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    Same old boutonski.

    coyotes_geek
    Feel free to go ahead and lay out your Koch Bros business case for each one of these investments.
    1. VRWC
    2. VRWC
    3. VRWC
    4. VRWC
    5. VRWC
    slap, meet delicious sauce.

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    yep, the VRWC's UCA, those fncking Corporate-Americans, is the primary threat to USA of Human-Americans.

    Occam's Razor, and the data fits perfectly, repeatedly.

    VRWC contains more truth that 10 years of Fox Repug Propaganda truth-i-ness.

    (which isn't say much)

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    So you got nothing. Again. Ok.

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    yep, the VRWC's UCA, those fncking Corporate-Americans, is the primary threat to USA of Human-Americans.

    Occam's Razor, and the data fits perfectly, repeatedly.

    VRWC contains more truth that 10 years of Fox Repug Propaganda truth-i-ness.

    (which isn't say much)
    Damn VRWC using donations to the ballet and the ACLU to threaten USA human americans......................

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    Fake leftist sent to piss off the natives and attract the jackasses, discrediting leftism the whole way with his off-kilter antics and his completely unearned hauteur?

    Tempting. But probably ultimately mistaken.

    (For better and for worse, boutons seems to be sincere.)
    So does WC and Yoni...

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    It was pointed out that the Koch Bros have donated, heavily, to what is ostensibly, a progressive cause. Please show me where Thinkprogress has championed a conservative cause and you might have a case. As it stands, you are, again, demonstrably wrong.

    And lol @ comparing a progressive blog to a billionaire. Lrn2contextualize.
    I don't see where donating to fight a law which hurts your business is a 'progressive cause' just because you have to use the ACLU to accomplish your evil deads....I don't buy that the ACLU is progressive or conservative...but whatever....

    I'm not going to defend Thinkprogress, they are what they are....but you defending the Koch brothers is very interesting....

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    lol @ defending the Koch Bros. I just have fun mocking blind ideologues.

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    Yeah.......Blind ideology........right.....

    Just what is this Koch Industries? Should it be called a "company?" If so we need to re-think the idea of what a company and a business is supposed to be. Even the brother of Koch Industries owners David and Charles Koch called the company an "organized crime" operation.

    Koch money is a key driver of the conservative movement. Almost every <1> conservative-movement rock <2> you turn over <3> has Koch money <4> crawling around <5> under it. As the movement becomes more and more of a pay-to-play operation, conservatives of every stripe do more and more to protect and enrich the Koch operation. This has included blocking, disrupting and avoiding official investigations of accusations. It also includes funding front groups to advance the political and financial interests of the company and its owners.
    Link

    Perhaps we should rename Congress... "Kochgress?"

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