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| Subject: Koch Brothers Expose Coming Sun May 11, 2014 5:08 am | |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20300 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 70 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Koch Brothers Expose Coming Fri Aug 23, 2019 8:24 am | |
| David Koch has died. Proves all the money in the world isn't worth jack shit in the end. - Quote :
- David Koch did not just inherit the family business, but the family politics as well. His father was one of the founding members of the far-right John Birch Society in 1958. Fred Koch’s conservative politics came partly from his time building oil refineries for Joseph Stalin’s communist government in the U.S.S.R. in the 1930s. (The elder Koch also built oil refining infrastructure for Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany during this period.) David would later say that his father “was a very conservative Republican and was not a fan of big government.”
As the more extroverted of the two siblings, David Koch took on a public role in 1980 as the running mate to Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark. Koch funded the campaign with $500,000 of his own money. The Clark-Koch ticket won just 1.1 percent of the vote on a platform of ending Social Security, welfare, minimum wage and labor laws, corporate taxes, and a host of government agencies including the FBI, CIA, Department of Energy, Securities and Exchange Commission and Occupational Health and Safety Administration, among others. |
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