This is a country that has created some of the greatest industries and the greatest fortunes in the history of the world. In 1883 Thomas Edison and many others began the age of electricity, lighting homes and powering the enormous scope of machines, appliances and useful devices. By the turn of the 21st Century we [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Koch Industries'
Neocon Corporate Moguls Attack Middle Class Workers
February 27th, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Education, Labor, Politics, Wall Street
Tags: Attacking the Middle Class·Corporate America·Koch Industries·Neocon Billionaires·Sendign jobs overseas·workers rights
Union-busting in Wisconsin
February 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Human Rights, jobs, Labor, Politics, Populism
There is a strong game plan abroad in the land to bust unions. Most unions these days are for government workers. So the new Neocon Republican governors are out to break those unions, in Ohio, and New Jersey and Florida, and most prominently in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker the Governor of Wisconsin only since November [...]
Tags: attacks on public employee unions·Charles Koch·Governor Chris Christie·Governor John Kasich·Governor Rick Scott·Governor Scott Walker·health benefits·Karl Rove·Koch Industries·Neocons·penalizing teachers and government workers.·public employee unions penalized·state deficits·teacher unions·teachers·union-busting
Fair and Unbalanced
February 3rd, 2011 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Politics
People want us to be fair and impartial. Not seeing conspiracies behind every voting booth. So perhaps we can attempt to be fair and yet firm. That’s what we’ll be from now on. We’ll let the videos show you how preposterous are some of the statements by the talking heads. If you are perceptive, as [...]
Tags: Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·Neocon politics·neocon propaganda·Neoconservative politics·the Right Wing rich
The Grand Illusion, Part II
September 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
Part II — Who is telling all those lies…and why? They met on the mall in Washington, that renowned place for great assemblies. They were baby-boomers and beyond and overwhelmingly white. (Maybe when you call a Liberal African-American President, raised by white grandparents a ‘racist” as Glenn Beck did, you may turn away people of [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Charles Koch·David H. Koch·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·Neocon rallies·Restoring Honor·tea party
The Grand Illusion
August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Culture, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Part I – Looming disaster and how we got here The Tea Party Movement is neither a movement nor has it anything to do with the traditions of freedom represented by the American Revolution. It is in fact, ironically, about the impulse of an uneducated and badly led society to permit the restriction of its [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·Dick Armey·FreedomWorks·Glenn Beck·Koch Industries·neocon·Neocons·tea party·tea party rallies·tea party rally
Republicans and Tea Party Demonstrators Are Not Populists.
April 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · Culture, Health Care, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics
Populism, as it relates to politics is a theory of action that demands that legislation be written on behalf of the people, and not the special interests. It is the ultimate in Democracy and the ultimate in good will towards man, working from the will of the people to provide remedies and sustenance for the [...]
Tags: Americans for Prosperity·FreedomWorks·Koch Family Foundations·Koch Industries·Neoconservative lobbying groups·Populism·right wing republicans·special interests
Government of the Lobbyists, by the Lobbyists, for the Lobbyists…
September 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Economics, Politics
There were 14,000 lobbyists in Washington, D.C. in 2008. Those 14,000 lobbyists spent $3.3 billion dollars. That means that, in order to lobby for the health insurance lobby, the media, the oil companies, the financial companies and, yes, the unions spend $6,128,224 for each member of Congress. How much did you spend last year on [...]