Unfortunately, the Koch bros. aren't the only ones causing harm to our nation just to benefit themselves (politicians, corporate executives, media, etc.).
Sadly, you are correct. A cursory review of public flip-flopping by Senators in the Health Care debate in favor of HMO’s and most recently “Oil Friendly” Senators opposed to repeal of tax breaks for Oil Corporations. At a time when corporations are making multi-Billion dollar profits and social programs are being cut for the poor and elderly is scandalous. If we were a Latin American country, companies buying politicians would be derisively dismissed as bribery, in the USA we refer to it as “campaign contributions.”
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Father Geoff,
Thank you for bringing to your readers' attention the malfeasance of the Koch brothers.
I came across some other articles re: the Koch bros. you might be interested in:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425186
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?src=me&ref=general
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
http://www.thenation.com/article/160062/big-brothers-thought-control-koch
Unfortunately, the Koch bros. aren't the only ones causing harm to our nation just to benefit themselves (politicians, corporate executives, media, etc.).
Dear Joe,
Sadly, you are correct. A cursory review of public flip-flopping by Senators in the Health Care debate in favor of HMO’s and most recently “Oil Friendly” Senators opposed to repeal of tax breaks for Oil Corporations. At a time when corporations are making multi-Billion dollar profits and social programs are being cut for the poor and elderly is scandalous. If we were a Latin American country, companies buying politicians would be derisively dismissed as bribery, in the USA we refer to it as “campaign contributions.”
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