For the Koch brothers and their ilk, screwing the middleclass is just a hobby

[divideandconquer]

They're already rich as Midas, almost as rich as Walton, they don't need more money. Remember the 1983 movie "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd where 2 millionaires reverse the fortunes of a rich guy and poor guy just for fun. That's what the plutocrats are doing with the Tea party, it's just fun and games for them.

[applegrove]

1. Yes the koch brothers really need nothing from their country yet they destroy the lives of millions.

They must be sadistic or something. Why else do what they do?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. I doubt the middle class ever crosses their minds

[divideandconquer]

3. Many CEO's are sociopaths

<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/07/27>

[COLGATE4]

4. These little bastards come by it honestly. Koch senior was

a class A sociopath, dedicated Rethug anti-commie Bircher. These are just two little chips off the old poisoned tree.

[divideandconquer]

5. It's not about the money it's the meanesss

[ladjf]

12. Yes, just like capital punishment. nt

[yella_dawg]

9. Actually...

Actually, the brothers revel in screwing "the little people". A print article I read some years ago quoted a conversation where the brothers gloated over shorting small landowners on their share of oil royalties. The title of the OP is quite accurate.

[old mark]

6. They want more because they just want it - it's all ego gratification with them,

as reflected in the old phrase,"Money is just a way of keeping score."

To me, that was a sure sign that the person speaking had way too much money, accumulated for too little effort.

mark

rec.

[KharmaTrain]

7. This Is A Game...A Very Deadly One...

These dudes are insulated from any world that we could comprehend. Money is just a number and their game is to accumulate as much as they can no matter what it takes. Spending $10 million is pocket change but it also turns real people into part of their game and that's where things turn dangerous. You see a slimeball like Boner...truly the slimiest this side of DeLay...who is so in the pocket of these game players who see the destruction of the middle class as their objective and to yield power and influence through proxies.

The irony is for years the rushpublicans have cried about George Soros being some megamoneymonster who is spending unlimited amounts to corrupt the political system while the real perps were and still are in their own backyard. The fools who don't benefit from the grease of the game are taken for the suckers they are.

[ladjf]

8. Yours is an astute observation. They don't even need the money.

They are just amusing themselves at our expense.

Some years ago I was negotiating the final closing on a small piece of real estate with a multi-millionaire. Just before the signing, the millionaire seller was holding out for one last item that had a value of $500.00. This was on a 350,000 deal. I could have just "eaten" the $500 and closed out. However, I realized that he was doing the same thing that the Koch Bros. were doing, that is, trying to have some "fun" at my expense. I knew what he was doing and refused to continue the negotiations as I saw that he was not a good faith person.

The greed of the rich is the greatest threat to the World's human population. There has got to be some way the the majority can wrest control from them.

[Iterate]

10. Spot on,

With one addendum.

The few people of this ilk I've had the misfortune to know, or know of in detail, were such manipulative psychopaths that they would rise early and soon have their world laid out like pieces on a board game, long before anyone else had pulled their socks up. By 9AM the pawns were in play. To amuse themselves for the rest of the day they kept a stable of inept and overpaid sycophants who they could torture at their leisure.

The only way to deal with people like that is to refuse -as you did, refuse.

[ladjf]

11. Basically, I judge people by one simple criterion, are they people

of good faith or not. I mean by "good faith" that they do not wish to harm me.

[indepat]

13. What a shame the "screwed" middle class can't mount some sort of a counter-screwing

;)