What Life Would Be Like In Charles Koch's America

WASHINGTON -- Conservative billionaire Charles G. Koch laid out his prescription for reviving the American economy on Wednesday in an op-ed published by USA Today.

In it, Koch argues that the economic recovery is hampered by "destructive regulations affecting whether and how business invests and employees work."

He's referring to regulations designed to protect workers' safety, ensure fair pay, provide for clean air and water, eliminate dangerous consumer products and other benevolent results. For a good sense of what America would be like without these protections, pick up a copy of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. more . . .

 

Right off the bat you can tell this whole article is bullshit. When people talk about cutting onerous regulations, the liberal commie reaction is always , "ohhhh they want dirty air and dirty water" as if there is absolutely no burdensome regulations in between that can be cut, as if we are supposedly running such an efficient bureaucracy that we are 1 regulation cut away from having to drink sewer water.

The good thing is we already know what a far left liberal haven looks like, just take a look at chicago or california, both are falling apart due to chronically high deficits, taxes through the roof, murders through the roof, regulations through the roof, unemployment through the roof, failing schools, higher energy prices etc... etc....

Ill take the universe the kochs want to live in any day of the week over any far left commie shit hole in america. At least in the koch's world those who choose to work hard can succeed.

 

It's brilliant how the Koch's have invented this Tea Party thing and gotten all these dummy sheep to do their bidding under the guise of "freedom". The sheep think they are fighting for some noble idea, and really all they are doing is working like hypnotized puppets for the Koch's and similar big money interests.


Tea Partiers may share the Kochs’ detestation of taxes, big government and Obama. But there’s a difference between mainstream conservatism and a fringe agenda that tilts completely toward big business, whether on Wall Street or in the Gulf of Mexico, while dismantling fundamental government safety nets designed to protect the unemployed, public health, workplace safety and the subsistence of the elderly.

Yet inexorably the Koch agenda is morphing into the G.O.P. agenda, as articulated by current Republican members of Congress, including the putative next speaker of the House, John Boehner, and Tea Party Senate candidates like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, and the new kid on the block, Alaska’s anti-Medicaid, anti-unemployment insurance Palin protégé, Joe Miller. Their program opposes a federal deficit, but has no objection to running up trillions in red ink in tax cuts to corporations and the superrich; apologizes to corporate malefactors like BP and derides money put in escrow for oil spill victims as a “slush fund”; opposes the extension of unemployment benefits; and calls for a freeze on federal regulations in an era when abuses in the oil, financial, mining, pharmaceutical and even egg industries (among others) have been outrageous.

The Koch brothers must be laughing all the way to the bank knowing that working Americans are aiding and abetting their selfish interests. And surely Murdoch is snickering at those protesting the “ground zero mosque.” Last week on “Fox and Friends,” the Bush administration flacks Dan Senor and Dana Perino attacked a supposedly terrorism-tainted Saudi prince whose foundation might contribute to the Islamic center. But as “The Daily Show” keeps pointing out, these Fox bloviators never acknowledge that the evil prince they’re bashing, Walid bin Talal, is not only the biggest non-Murdoch shareholder in Fox News’s parent company (he owns 7 percent of News Corporation) and the recipient of Murdoch mammoth investments in Saudi Arabia but also the subject of lionization elsewhere on Fox.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=0

 

Cracks me up how TPs have convinced themselves that the whole thing is "grass roots".

 

It was, originally.

 

This is what you think? ...I have never heard Tea Party be concerned if it is grass roots or not.
The left loves to do this....Tell the right what they are thinking.
In fact we all know its first concept came from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from Rick Santelli in a message to all Capitalists...hardy grass roots.

"All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing," he screamed from the CME on February 19, 2009. It was time, Santelli said, for another Tea Party.
"We're thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July!"
And with that, a new movement was born. Santelli would later call it the "best five minutes of my life."
His infamous segment — in response to a minor homeowner bailout — is now credited with helping launch the Tea Party tidal wave that began during the early years of the Obama administration and ended up "shellacking" the Democrats in the 2010 midterms.

 

An integral part of the TP mythos.

 

Or the moonbat psychosis.

 

No one is excluded from participation in the Tea Party Movement. Everyone is welcomed to join in seeking to achieve the Tea Party Movement goals, which are as follows:
1. Eliminate Excessive Taxes
2. Eliminate the National Debt
3. Eliminate Deficit Spending
4. Protect Free Markets
5. Abide by the Constitution of the United States
6. Promote Civic Responsibility
7. Reduce the Overall Size of Government
8. Believe in the People
9. Avoid the Pitfalls of Politics
10. Maintain Local Independence

 

Lucrum's trading plan:

1. Get rich.