Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers Emerge From Anonymity

Its amazing that a corporation with the money and unending power can go unknown for so long. Without the Koch brothers the political far right would not have been the recipitent of over 196 Million dollars. Where would the canidates of the TEA Party be without the brothers and their Millions of dollars? Something to think about.

Thomas Greenman of FL 2:45PM July 14, 2012

"Young environmental activists were slapped with $100,000 law suits for demonstrating and engaging in pranks. A Politico reporter describes being thrown out and threatened with “a night in the Riverside County jail.”"

Still beats being raped by the OWS animals.

The Kock family is a great example of what the American dream is, and their only fault in my eyes is not coming out publicly enough to hammer the point until every single American realizes that the left wants to replace it with the European serf's dream.

There is a moral gulf between the Kochs and George Soros:

One is a family that earned its fantastic wealth the hard way, the American way and is giving a tremendous part of it back to the country that made it all possible. Think about it. How many people who inherited their wealth become out-of-touch, intellectually lazy limousine socialists who spit on the very values and principles that made their privileged lives possible, who insult the hard work done to make sure they would have the best life possible? How many of them spit on the American people, too unsophisticated for them, and strive to ape the European aristocracy? It's pretty much the norm. But the Kochs didn't follow that tragic pattern, to their credit. They understand what they owe their enviable position to and are fighting to make sure that others can have the same chance.

The other is a foreign individual with a shady past - to putting it lightly - who acquired its wealth in opaque, highly suspicious ways and is using it to reshape his adoptive country according to a foreign worldview favored by regimes that, not long ago, were openly trying to destroy the USA and impose their totalitarian rule on the world.

That people would choose to demonize the former and not thoroughly investigate the latter shows a moral corruption on par with that of Soviet Russia's useful idiots.

FAFournier 5:20AM March 03, 2012

in the 1950`s I lived in Quanah,Tx...Fred Koch, grandfather of charles, david, william and john....billionairers....bought a newspaper there, in the 1890`s "Quanah Tribune Chief'...still in biz....these boys aunt owned the paper and I had several chances tovisitwithher.....she pronounced the name,,,,`kaw`....but Iunderstand `coke` is the prevalent one now.....

william hill of AR 5:18PM February 18, 2012

Both the Republican and Democrat parties are going in the wrong direction. To SAVE the US entrepreneurial ranking, credit rating, stock market, the $, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid and the police, fire, k-12 public school, library, military, defense and homeland security budgets while CUTTING government spending, debt and present tax rates without causing inflation or high interest rates; both State and Federal parties would be winners if they would compromise with the following strategies:

Create good paying American jobs with good benefits for American citizens by repealing all sales taxes & replace the lost revenue with an import tax/tariff on imported labor (India) & manufactured goods (Mexico and Communist China & Vietnam). Increase the federal income tax deduction from $5700 (2010) to $15000 for American citizens. Increase the IN state income tax exemption for non-dependent adults from $1000 to $5000, up to $15,000; depending on disabilities and age. All standard deductions and exemptions should be adjusted for inflation. Collect an export tax on natural resources/commodities such as coal, oil, natural gas & grains.

Repeal all wealthy individual, business and new development/construction tax incentives such as tax abatement, tax increment financing, grants, deductions, credits, tax free bonds, earmarks and loopholes that are creating poverty wage American jobs or exporting jobs. OR, require these corporate welfare kings to pay a living wage, minimum wage of $15/hour with good benefits; adjusted for inflation. Collect mandatory impact fees (IN code: 36-7-4-1300, only infrastructure today); but, expand the code to collect impact fees for schools, libraries, parks, police and fire. Search for Brent Pittman Brownsburg, IN at flyergroup.com, LinkedIn.com and google.com for more information and details.

Brent Pittman of IN 2:18PM December 28, 2011