The Koch brothers seem to represent the worst of America, greed and contempt for their fellow Americans. Their dad made his fortune working for the most committed and dangerous enemy that the US ever had, Joseph Stalin and the brothers seem committed to destroying what's left of freedom and prosperity in America.
Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed" (Full) - YouTube
They're working to limit voter rights.
Voting limits put democracy in peril - CNN.com
They want to resegregate schools.
Robert Greenwald and Max Stanley: The Koch Brothers Are At It Again in Public Schools [VIDEO]
While owning a half dozen multi-million dollar homes they use their "think tanks" to advocate the continued foreclosure of many Americans.
Robert Greenwald: Five Worst Things the Koch Brothers Have Done. Vote!
They're busy taking over higher centers of learning to impose their message on a new generation.
FSU Accepts Funds From Charles Koch In Return For Control Over Its Academic Freedom | ThinkProgress
Robert Greenwald: Are the Koch Brothers Teaching You? [VIDEO]
And while the Kochs will never need for anything due to the massive fortune that's based on their father's work for Stalin, they don't want to see average Americas have a chance to advance their own interests.
Analysis: Koch brothers a force in anti-union effort | Reuters
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions - Forbes
They put millions into their public relations organizations to get their message out.
Koch brothers pour more cash into think tanks, ALEC | The Center for Public Integrity
They also think that most Americans should have to work into their old age.
Here’s How the Koch Bros. Put ‘Raise the Retirement Age’ On TV
Brave New Foundation - The Koch Brothers’ Echo Chamber - Brave New Foundation
Koch Industries: Social Security Age Should Be Raised
They also want to kill social security.
The Koch brothers' campaign to kill social security | Robert Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Ugly Americans is too tame a term really, this is pure evil.
Robert Greenwald's "Koch Brothers Exposed" (Full) - YouTube
They're working to limit voter rights.
Voting limits put democracy in peril - CNN.com
Through a spate of restrictive laws passed in Republican-led state legislatures, a disproportionate number of African-Americans, Latinos, people with disabilities, the elderly and the young will find voting difficult and in many cases impossible. These laws require a state photo ID to vote, limit early voting, place strict requirements on voter registration and deny voting rights to Americans with criminal records who have paid their debt to society.
A new documentary from Brave New Foundation reveals strong partisan backing of these laws. Under the pretense of safeguarding elections against voter fraud, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative advocacy group that receives funding from the billionaire Koch brothers (who also back the tea party), crafted and distributed model voter ID legislation introduced in more than 30 states this year. But widespread voter fraud is a myth. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice says strict ID verification requirements "address a sort of voter fraud more rare than death by lightning." An extensive analysis of data from all 50 states by the U.S. Justice Department found that incidents of voter fraud are exceedingly rare.
They want to resegregate schools.
Robert Greenwald and Max Stanley: The Koch Brothers Are At It Again in Public Schools [VIDEO]
The student resegregation plan favored by industrialists Charles and David Koch has been a divisive flashpoint between school board members in Wake County, NC. The billionaire brothers continue trying to resegregate a widely celebrated school system, which sets the agenda for hundreds of communities across nationwide.
The Koch brothers are extending their political battles to local school boards. An anonymous campaign flier, which may have ties to the Kochs, accuses the NAACP of brainwashing local anti-resegregation candidates. The flier is called "indoctrination" and is being investigated by state officials. The Kochs have been linked to similar smear efforts in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Koch brothers own virtually all of Koch Industries, a $100 billion manufacturing conglomerate. Through our Koch Brothers Exposed videos, we've brought the brothers' spending on political causes that advance their bottom line and anti-civic service ideology to the fore. This film investigates the Kochs' role in resegregating a high performing school district.
While owning a half dozen multi-million dollar homes they use their "think tanks" to advocate the continued foreclosure of many Americans.
Robert Greenwald: Five Worst Things the Koch Brothers Have Done. Vote!
The Kochs fund think tanks that push for foreclosures on working people's houses. The Koch funded Reason Foundation has produced numerous reports saying that foreclosures should not be stopped. And the Koch funded Mercatus Center also presented congressional testimony stating that the foreclosures should not be stopped, and that there is no harm done to homeowners when their houses are foreclosed on.
They're busy taking over higher centers of learning to impose their message on a new generation.
FSU Accepts Funds From Charles Koch In Return For Control Over Its Academic Freedom | ThinkProgress
Robert Greenwald: Are the Koch Brothers Teaching You? [VIDEO]
What's happening to academia in Florida demands national attention. Billionaires Charles and David Koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities. It's an old fashioned quid pro quo where the Koch brothers get allied professors who'll preach Ayn Rand, supply side economic policies and the values of the 19th century Guilded Age to students and the college gets some funding.
Every year, thousands of individuals move through the Koch-supported classes, lectures and fields of study, which in their totality amount to an ideological assembly line bought and paid for by the Koch brothers. There are Koch-funded agreements at more than 150 American colleges and universities.
And while the Kochs will never need for anything due to the massive fortune that's based on their father's work for Stalin, they don't want to see average Americas have a chance to advance their own interests.
Analysis: Koch brothers a force in anti-union effort | Reuters
The billionaire Koch brothers -- whose deep pockets and small-government philosophy have made them conservative powerhouses -- are playing an influential role in the drive to strip public employee unions of their rights to bargain in several U.S. states.
Charles and David Koch, who both rank 24th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people with $17.5 billion each, are behind campaign donations of tens of thousands, if not millions, of dollars to Republicans leading the anti-union effort.
"They're the poster boys for the incredible out-sized influence that corporate America has on our government right now," said Mary Boyle of the left-leaning group Common Cause.
Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions - Forbes
As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here.
Mother Jones is reporting that much of the funding behind the Walker for Governor campaign came from none other than uber-conservatives, the infamous Koch Brothers.
What’s more, the plan to kill the unions is right out of the Koch Brothers play book.
Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation have long taken a very antagonistic view toward public-sector unions. Several of these groups have urged the eradication of these unions. The Kochs also invited Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union outfit, to a June 2010 confab in Aspen, Colorado;
Via Mother Jones
If you are reluctant to believe that this is a coordinated attack, consider this-
This afternoon, Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union, sent a message to the Governor’s office agreeing to the cuts to pension & welfare benefits sought by Walker in his bill. The governor’s response was “nothing doing.” He wants the whole kit and kaboodle – the end of the collective bargaining rights of the public unions.
They put millions into their public relations organizations to get their message out.
And now we aim our focus at the Koch brothers. With a net worth of $43 billion the Kochs have already spent decades of their lives and over $324 million of their wealth exerting their influence.
Koch brothers pour more cash into think tanks, ALEC | The Center for Public Integrity
Four foundations run by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch hold a combined $310 million in assets according to tax filings obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.
The documents also show that the brothers, principal owners of the second-largest privately held company in the United States, combined in 2011 to donate $24 million through those foundations with much of the money going to support free-market and libertarian think tanks and academic centers.
A $4.4 million grant to the George Mason University Foundation makes up 15 percent of the university foundation’s grant revenue for 2011. The school is the largest recipient of Koch foundation money since 1985, and it houses several free-market and libertarian research centers including the Institute for Humane Studies, which received $3.7 million from the Koch foundations.
They also think that most Americans should have to work into their old age.
Here’s How the Koch Bros. Put ‘Raise the Retirement Age’ On TV
Brave New Foundation - The Koch Brothers’ Echo Chamber - Brave New Foundation
Koch Industries: Social Security Age Should Be Raised
They also want to kill social security.
The Koch brothers' campaign to kill social security | Robert Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Ugly Americans is too tame a term really, this is pure evil.