GOP agenda is the agenda of the Koch Brothers--lower taxes, 'personal responsibility,' deregulation

[flpoljunkie]

The Republican party are the lackeys for corporate hucksters like the Koch Brothers--who are also the big money behind Americans for Prosperity, the outfit that funds the Tea Party Express. As George W. Bush once said, 'Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.' Am afraid, however, that voters may well be fooled again. Time is running out!

Excerpt from: Covert Operations
The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
by Jane Mayer

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation.

With his brother Charles, who is seventy-four, David Koch owns virtually all of Koch Industries, a conglomerate, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, whose annual revenues are estimated to be a hundred billion dollars. The company has grown spectacularly since their father, Fred, died, in 1967, and the brothers took charge. The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles of pipeline. Koch Industries owns Brawny paper towels, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, among other products. Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and Charles Koch—who, years ago, bought out two other brothers—among the richest men in America. Their combined fortune of thirty-five billion dollars is exceeded only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Excellent article - long, but worth the read. nt