Koch Brothers... I don't get the problem
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
February 24, 2011 12:03pm CST
Much of the left is making a huge deal that the Koch bothers (billionaire business men) making contributions to conservative and libertarian political candidates' campaigns. Ok, I'm not denying that a bit. They do make those contributions, as much as the law allows.
What I don't get is why that is any different than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett contributing huge donations to left wing campaigns?
Let's look a little further at the hypocrisy...
Jeffrey R. Immelt (CEO of General Electric) donated huge amounts of money to Obama and other democrat candidates... and wow, check it out, GE ends up with $100 Million from the stimulant package.. for projects they had to invent divisions for, since they didn't produce what the president wanted GE to produce.
They have also received no bid contracts for work done overseas.. and I thought the democrats were going to stop that.
Public unions like SEIU donated a total of over $400 Million, spread around democrat campaigns.
Sorry, when the left is allowed their billionaire benefactors it seems kind of hypocritical to deny the right of theirs!
Or is it just the left following Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"?
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@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
24 Feb 11
Yeah, I was going to say you forgot George Soros. You would think he would be broke by now considering how many things he has put in hands have gone bust.
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
24 Feb 11
I wanted to add the only reason Koch got dragged into the media in the first place was some caller was saying it was him.
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
24 Feb 11
The Koch brother are a target of the left because Obama made them one. The prank caller wanted to get Walker to act as if Koch were the one calling the shots, but it didn't happen. Soros contributes millions to left wing campaigns and even news organizations with specific instructions about destroying specific right-wing opinion commentators but the left sees only right-wing conservative billionaires as evil.
The Koch brothers were singled out for this kind of intense hatred and focus because the administration specifically called them out and pointed them out as enemies to the liberals. They have responded well, believing that somehow the Koch brothers are the enemy and the driving force behind the effort to "bust the unions" which is how they view the situation in Wisconsin. Again, because this is how they are told to view it.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
24 Feb 11
Hypocrisy? From the left? I just don't believe it. You are just watching too much Fox News. Koch Brothers are evil, George Soros is a hero, well not to the Jews whose property he helped confiscate as a Nazi collaborator, but to the left in the US at least.
