Thursday, May 19, 2011

Truth in Art

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

--Harry S. Truman


2 comments:

Joe said...

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.).

Father Geoff said...

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.”