Koch Brothers Increased Wealth by $9 Billion Last Year As They Fund Laws to Make Working Class Poore

[babsbunny]

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12476

Based on a recent Forbes survey, Rachel Maddow revealed that while Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is stripping away the financial security of workers, the Koch brothers increased their wealth by $9 billion last year. Together, Maddow notes, they would rank as the fourth-wealthiest person ($44 billion) in the world.

Meanwhile, the Koch brothers and Karl Rove, among others, are using front organizations to pit working people, who are being exploited, against unions. It's the ultimate in class warfare: make the working class fight each other over an increasingly smaller piece of the financial pie, as the super wealthy run off with the bakery.

That's why ads in Wisconsin - and stories on Fox - are trying to get Wal-Mart low-wage workers to resent that union members receive better benefits, which of course - on a logical level - reinforces to many of us exactly why unions are needed: to prevent the impoverishment of people who labor for a living.

[corpseratemedia]

1. maybe it's not about how much they make, it's about the discrepancy

they need to feel a greater and greater distance between themselves and what they want to see as the dirty masses to feel "secure" or whatever the hell they are feeling