Wichita Kansas is the home town the most politically
ambitious billionaires in the whole country. Those two billionaires are Charles,
and David Koch. These are the men who believe that their money makes them way
smarter and more deserving of a government of their liking than the poor
suckers who work for a living, keeping their financial empire afloat. Most of
those people can barely afford to send $100 to their favorite politicians
running for office and many will just vote and that is it.
When I was young I constantly heard that fascism and
communism where a threat to our “democracy.” If anything threatens what is left
of our democracy it is the idea of billionaires taking over the country and
setting themselves up as political and financial war lords. Their desire is to control over institution
that our lives depend on, from health care to the news media.
It was just two years ago that the Koch brother’s network
raised $400 million in an attempt to destroy the presidency of
Barack Obama. That was a bitter disappointment for them and other billionaires
such as Donald Trump when their money didn’t pay off. They also spent a lot of money on other
conservative politicians.
All indications are that we will see a record amount of
money in the next elections as these billionaires try to destroy the Democrat’s
hold of the Senate and spending on local races all across the country to build
their empire from the bottom up.
They will funnel much of this money to a network of conservative
organizations that are set up to look like grass roots organizations, but are
actually just front groups to push the Koch brothers conservative agenda.
According to POLITICO; The shift is best
illustrated in the expansion of three pieces of the Koch political network
expected to be showcased or represented at the three-day meeting in Palm
Springs, whose evolving roles were described to POLITICO by several sources.
• Center for Shared
Services: a nonprofit recruiter and administrative support team for other
Koch-backed groups, which provides assistance with everything from scouting
office space to accounting to furniture and security.
• Freedom Partners: a
nonprofit hub that doled out $236 million in 2012 to an array of
conservative nonprofits that is now expanding its own operation so that it can
fulfill many of the functions of past grantees.
• Aegis Strategic: a
political consulting firm started last year by Koch-allied operatives who will
recruit, train and support candidates who espouse free-market philosophies like
those beloved by the Kochs, and will also work with nonprofit groups in the
Koch network, like Freedom Partners, with which it has a contract to provide
policy analysis
There are other potential front groups they can make use of
including Center to Protect Patient Rights. We can be assured that this group is
dedicated to destroying Obama-care and making sure that poor people, especially
the working poor and those on minimum wage, will be denied any kind of health
care.
There is also their main front group Americans for Prosperity.
And the Koch Brothers
are not just spending money to promote their ideology. They are saving themselves
lots of money, opposing any kind of environmental regulations, minimum and
livable wages for their employees, no safety regulation, not taxes (those are
for the little people to pay such as their employees) not entitlements, even
social security and avoiding having to spend virtually nothing for the poor and
middle classes healthcare.
When the Koch Brothers talk of freedom or economic freedom,
they are not talking about the 99% of us struggling for a living, they are
talking about the 1% such as them. And that freedom they want comes at out expense.
This is the time to work harder to destroy these people’s
efforts and eventually get RID of the Koch Brothers.
Sources: Some of this information came from The
Washington Post , The
Wichita Eagle, and Wichita Peace and Freedom Party Examiner.
-សតិវ អតុ
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