BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"

[kpete]

What Do the Koch Brothers Want?

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David KochWhat else do the Koch brothers want?

In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.

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Let’s take a look at the 1980 Libertarian Party platform.

Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:

“We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”
“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”
“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”
“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”
“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”
“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”
“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”
“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”
“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”
“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”
“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”
“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”
“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”
“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”
“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”
“We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”
“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”
“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”
“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”
“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”
“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”
“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”
“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”

In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country.

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Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.

Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.

For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers
interesting stuff here too:
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch

[napi21]

1. I've never wished illwill on anyone before, but

in the case of these bros, I'm thinking this will be the first. There's always things like plane crashes, auto accidents, fatal illnesses etc. I'm tired being all legal and professional. These guys deserve the absolute worst!

[geretogo]

16. I will second that !!

[Warpy]

21. I'm meaner than you are

I want to see those bastards POOR.

[Brigid]

26. "The best way you hurt rich people . . .

"Is by turning them into poor people." -- Billy Ray Valentine

[SCVDem]

41. Just like the movie

Trading Places

Payback's a bitch!

[Brigid]

48. That *was* "Trading Places."

One of the greats.

[treestar]

77. This is exactly what would make them suffer most

Or a lack of power. It's not even the money, it's power over others.

[tofuandbeer]

27. I feel the same way whenever I see a mention of this demonic duo.

[Rockyj]

30. Compared to Koch Brothers' Rush Limbaugh appears anglelic

[erronis]

45. Oh, come on now - there's room in hell for them all.

[Rider3]

47. Ditto

[Half-Century Man]

2. What do the Koch Bros deserve?

To lose everything and spend a few years homeless on the streets of NYC.

[tofuandbeer]

28. +1

[Erose999]

33. Or a few decades at Riker's.

[JDPriestly]

3. Wow! And they have taken over the Republican Party.

Lincoln must be turning over in his grave.

I'm surprised they didn't admit that they want to appeal the 14th and 15th Amendments on top of everything else.

[1StrongBlackMan]

36. Hell ...

Nixon must be turning in his grave!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. UnAmerican to the core.

[Redford]

5. The problem with going after the Koch brothers....

Is that most people have no idea who they are. They don't appear on tv, the paparazzi don't follow them, they are not in People magazine, they have no reality show, and they don't date celebrities.

[geretogo]

17. That's what makes them so dangerous . They're like termites eating your home unseen in your walls .

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[Maraya1969]

67. Well that is what might make them easy targets too. Just saying.......

[freshwest]

57. And the media focuses on those people instead of the real issues that would change our lives.

It wasn't always this way. Such things were minor as far as networks were concerned, they were what people paid to see at the movies or listen to music on the radio.

Now the eye candy is so pervasive, it's in school text books as if it mattered. It doesn't. The same goes for the stories of just how awful or stupid some people are. It keeps the babblers busy.

What matters is who owns the media, resources and influences people to vote for their agenda, not ours. I look at media inversely, as when many were protesting the Iraq War that was totally blacked out. Instead of covering the life and deaths of many, some celebrity's drug induced death spiral was on the news 24/7. The appeal is to personality, and not political reality.

The adage of the mushroom says that they keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit. We can argue about the quality of the bullshit, but we're still in the dark, that's what is missed every time.

[japple]

59. Their names are on a lot of the chicken houses in the (GA) county where I live. I think they must

have bought out some other brand of chicken. Now, I'm seeing "Koch Foods" signs around here.

[HughBeaumont]

80. They're like the twin Dick Cheneys of wealth.

Preferring to lurk behind the scenes as puppeteer scions after their political campaigns failed miserably.

[young_at_heart]

6. I can't the smarmy smiles!

I hate that these despicable men have so much money and so much power. They are certainly not true Americans!

[Auntie Bush]

7. In two words......

They SUCK!

[geretogo]

8. I would be happy if these two treasonous criminals ended like Jimmy Hoffa .

[TBF]

40. They are not "treasonous criminals" - at least not in the way you mean.

They are capitalists. I'm sure it you cornered them on it they could show you they've made all their money legally. << Notice that I did not say they made it morally - but I'll bet they are clear legally. And that is what is wrong with this economic system. It not only allows but ENCOURAGES this greed and it's accompanying behaviors. They need to go, but so does capitalism itself.

[geretogo]

43. I agree . We need a whole new system .

[Maynar]

9. They want it all

And they want it now.

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[MrModerate]

10. More precisely, they want to abolish civilization generally . . .

And revert to the rule of tooth and claw.

They are flatly nuts.

[JHB]

34. Freedom... For the most ruthless

[treestar]

78. Exactly. They think they would have all the power

If only the government didn't, they could have it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. They certainly have been consistant all these years

for evil pieces of sh*t

[MisterP]

24. earlier it was the Hunt brothers (the guys who tried to corner the silver market and are legally now

banned from doing any such investment)
next it'll be the DeVoses (yes, Amway is going to take over the GOP)

[TRoN33]

12. Yet Charles Koch is being revered

As absolute patriotic by Senator Vitter.

[YOHABLO]

13. Charles and David Koch .. the two bros are getting up there in age .. perhaps if >

..... and you know what the 'if' means.

[Brigid]

82. Do either of them have any spawn?

I hope not.

[IkeRepublican]

14. Not really uncovered

Was shown and discussed quite a bit in the movie "The Billionaires Tea Party" that was put out 3-4 years ago.

[harun]

46. Agree, this is hardly a secret.

[Beartracks]

15. And the GOP has been dragged so far right that libertarian crap now seems reasonable to them.

And GOPers of yesterday -- like Ronald Reagan -- would be deemed to librul, too socialist. How ironic that must be for him.

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[GoneFishin]

18. They have enough money to just take anything they want, by physical violence if necessary,

if only they can get the god-damned government out of their way.

They are the enemy of civilized society.

[hopemountain]

49. exactly

and it is a crime against humanity to bully and terrorize with money the working class, elders, the disabled, and the poor of all walks of life.

[demigoddess]

60. get the government out of their way

and they would have to be declared emperor-kings in order to keep our heads on.

[freshwest]

75. Well said.

[freshwest]

19. Their methods work on the 'left' and 'right' with C.T. & F.U.D. preached to advance their agenda.

People need to realize where the conclusions to manufactured outrages lead. This lists the consequences.

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[mountain grammy]

20. These boys aren't playing with a full deck..

[JHB]

35. It doesn't need to be full if you have the resources to stack it.

[Kablooie]

22. Libertarian my ass! Just call them what they are -- ANARCHISTS!

[Capt.Rocky300]

23. You beat me to it.

[Tsiyu]

31. Was just going to say the same thing

But people in the US are SOOOO stupid, they don't remember from day to day just how bad de-regulation hurts us.

The whole financial meltdown was a result of just the sort of anarchy the Kochsuckers want for this nation.

Why don't those two assholes move to Somalia, where there is no regulation? They would be far happier.

A pox on both of these piss ants. For real. I hope all their hatred for the US is turned back on them and they rot from the inside.


TODAY would not be soon enough for them to drop dead.

[1StrongBlackMan]

37. Why don't those two assholes move to Somalia? ...

because here in the US, the cost of their (physical and economic) security is largely paid for by others. In Somalia, the koches would have to provide for their own physical security (e.g., hire a large private security force and pay them more than the mercenaries could get by kidnapping them) and they know that there is no way to protect their economic security (e.g., no courts).

[Tsiyu]

56. They don't mind freeloading off our

education system ( to teach their workers how to read and do math, ) our highway system, to transport their goods to market and to bring in materials and to bring their workers to the jobsite; they don't mind freeloading off our court system, our water systems, our law enforcement systems,, and in fact were able to make their vast wealth by exploiting all these perks paid for by the commoner.

You're absolutely right. These two cretins only want to exploit a system that's already set up and paid for, with zero contribution on their part, despite all their affluence depending on the tax-paying commoners they despise.

[Kablooie]

61. Too many people of color out there so that's not an option for our nice, white, Koch boys.

[1StrongBlackMan]

62. I don't think that is much of a consideration ...

remember, Plantation owners were quite comfortable surrounded by people of color.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

54. Any self respecting anarchist would take offence from that comment!!!!!

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anarchists believe in the commonwealth for the common good...it's not the molotov throwing image most people have been brought up with , and as for those koch fuckers..they are fascists in the true sense

[Brigid]

25. Hey, Kockroaches!

The nineteenth century called. It wants its economic system back.

[HughBeaumont]

81. Don't tell people who are fans of that era this.

Most right-leaning libertarians hold the Gilded Age in high esteem for whatever reason.

Must not have read about how a civilization with no regulation, safety net, taxes or civil services whatsoever REALLY was if you weren't a white, well-monied "industrialist".

[certainot]

29. what's so fucking ridiculous is this was easily avoidable

the left's biggest political mistake in history, considering the time lost on global warming, is their total ignorance of the koch's best weapon- rw talk radio

everything on that list has been blasted out in their favor from 1200 radio stations for 25 years while the fucking idiot left would rather listen to a scratched barry manilow cd while they get their poli asses kicked by low tech AM radio

splaining it's as easy as that

[hue]

73. RW radio/kool-aide is effective but cerainly not their only weapon. 4 ex: ALEC & stacking the SCOTUS

[certainot]

74. that's ALEC's best weapon for pushing the center right, enabling and intimidating media and politici

politicians to make sure corporate asshats like alito and roberts are acceptable.

clarence thomas was one of rw radio 's successes- it was used to attack his critics, including doing to anita hill what limbaugh did to sandra fluke.

i think if there had been a left reaction to get anita hills back like the rush boycott today rw radio would be nowhere near as effective and scotus would be quite different today.

the eft's ignorance of rw radio, giving it a free speech free ride, is why we're in this disaster today.

look here at how gov scott walker/ALEC uses it in wisconsin- the same is happening in every state to some extent:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251359225

[Erose999]

32. I agree with the Kochsuckers that we should abolish the CIA. Probably not for the same reasons thoug

[pangaia]

38. Dear President Obama,

Would you like to really help elect Democrats to Congress this year?
For starters, would you be willing to go on national TV(whatever the hell that is- since I don't watch TV) and just read that list?

And thanks kpete for taking the time to do the research on this.
I had no idea had bad it really was. It sounds like The Onion.

[indepat]

39. The Koch brothers version of promoting the general welfare doctrine?

[skypilot]

42. Sounds like hell on earth.

And the flaming cherry on top:

“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”

Yes, of course you do. If Satan ran for office this would be his platform.

[WinstonSmith4740]

44. I feel like I owe everyone here an apology.

Back in my Libertarian days, I voted for John Anderson in 1980, which means I voted for this asshole. That's before I realized that Libertarians don't want the government to fund anything but war, and are hypocritical as hell, so that phase didn't last long.

[mountain grammy]

69. Welcome back to sanity.. I joined young Republicans in college

they were a fun party bunch. We took a trip to NYC from DC to work on campaigns for John Lindsay's mayoral campaign and Rockefeller for Gov. But the conservatives were among us and they were nuts. One went on to be a US Congressman for about 30 years before beaten in a primary by a teabagger... haha. even crazy Don wasn't crazy enough.

My fling lasted 2 semesters, much to my mom's relief.

[WinstonSmith4740]

70. Wow!

It's scary to think the irrational conservatives have been at this for that long, but men like Rove had to start somewhere, I guess. I mean, my late husband had been a life-long Repub until 1992...Buchanan pissed him off at the convention, and he said he "didn't want to be associated with these people anymore". Became a Democrat the next day. But the loony tunes seem to have driven those folks out.

[KrazyinKS]

50. 51% of the population do not know who they are-

I think that was the number I heard on MSNBC. Really! We know who they are here in Wichititty, hell they are moving 37th St N because they are expanding. BUT-they have no idea what their agenda really is. Those guys are past strange-they are sociopathic

[knightmaar]

51. Your Social Security is quite the fighter ...

Apparently it was "virtually bankrupt" 34 years ago, and it's still "going to bankrupt really soon" these days.

So impressive, hanging on by the skin of its teeth for so long.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

52. They also support the idea of everyone being heavily armed to thin out the poor.

[Sherman A1]

53. Thanks for Posting!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

55. I'd vote for that

if the consequences only affected repukes.

[Sheepshank]

58. holeee crapanoli

It's anarchy!

AND a money making machine for the wealthy

AT THE SAME TIME

[OnionPatch]

63. And they call us extremists?

WTF?! Seriously, they want a dog-eat-dog world where the rich and powerful run everything and the rest of us fight over any crumbs that fall off their plates.

How can conservatives who call themselves Christians agree with this? It's nuts!!

[robertpaulsen]

64. Oh, that's what he wants. Here's what he would get.

[LongTomH]

65. "Anarchists who want police power to protect them from their slaves!"

That was Kim Stanley Robinson's definition of Libertarians in Green Mars.

[blkmusclmachine]

66. Koch brands in your grocery store:

Angel Soft

Zee

Vanity Fair

Dixie Cups

Brawny

Quilted Northern

Sparkle

Mardi Gras

Stainmaster

Soft n Gentle

American Greetings

Lycra

[BlancheSplanchnik]

68. wow.

Just wow. Unbelievable. How do they think any kind of social structure could exist if you stripped away everything that creates structure?

How do they think the logistics of however many billion people living together would get handled? This is like a house full of kids who don't like rules thinking it would be a good idea to kick out the parents who provide the house and impose discipline best they can.

What full-throttle idiocy. Scary idiocy. Disgusting, selfish idiocy.

[L0oniX]

71. They want to be kings.

[hue]

72. This OP really nails it! Kochs fund the RW, Tea/Repuke & even Dems who support this agenda!

[treestar]

76. The FBI

So he doesn't want even federal criminal laws enforced? Wait, right he doesn't. That is for states in these loons' eyes.

[Initech]

79. So he basically supports completely destroying the government. Isn't that considered treason?