Koch Brothers Have Secretive Closed Door Meeting With Congressmen, Beck, Supreme Court Justices, More

[Ecovlke]

Originally Posted by westwaswon

Good for them . Americans that favor America .

You mean this is good for America?

Koch Industries has a long history of multi-million dollar fines from the EPA and Justice Department for everything from oil spills to dumping toxic chemicals. Even the Bush administration fined them for covering up the illegal dumping of 91 tons of carcinogenic benzene--though John ******** got potential fines of $350 million knocked down to a $20 million slap on the wrist for falsifying documents.

What makes the Koch Brothers particularly scary, though, is not that they reflexively oppose any change that might hurt their own bottom line. That doesn't make them all that different from Massey Energy or Chevron or lots of other big polluters (Koch Industries was ranked in the top ten of air polluters in the U.S. by a University of Massachusetts study). What's different about the Kochs is that they subscribe to a radical libertarian philosophy that opposes any governmental safeguards to protect people or the environment. It's a grim vision of our country that few Americans would ever subscribe to if they could see it plainly, and yet -- thanks to the brothers' enormous wealth -- it's had an out-sized effect on both our government and our public discourse. It's like a hidden riptide that keeps pulling you out to sea no matter how hard you strike toward the shore.

I don't think that illegally dumping 91 tons of carcinogenic benzene is 'good for America'. Nor do I think being in the top ten air polluters is 'good for America'.

What kind of brain defends someone like the Kochs?

[SourD]

Originally Posted by Ecovlke

You mean this is good for America?



I don't think that illegally dumping 91 tons of carcinogenic benzene is 'good for America'. Nor do I think being in the top ten air polluters is 'good for America'.

What kind of brain defends someone like the Kochs?

What kind of brain let's GE pollute just because they are in the WH? Oh, that's right, his name is Barack Obama.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

Can you link to any meeting that Soros has had with the USSC?
Anything at all?




Hmmmm, the Cheney Energy Plan... did you complain about the closed door meetings there?


Is your search engine broken?
BTW, this is a Koch Brothers thread.

Excuuuuse me. I didn't know you were in charge.

This thread is about people having behind the door meetings, contrary to what you believe.

As I know you know we are showing the hypocrisy in the complaints. You complain when someone from the right does it but, don't complaing when the same thing is done on the left.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

Was it with the USSC?
Purposely missing the point again, I see.

My response was to another poster's comment.
Do feel free to take it out of context, it's expected.

Why are singling out the USSC? There were a lot of other people there.