The Koch Brothers

[Dale00]

Why do so many people dislike them?

From what I can tell they are both highly intelligent, successful business people who fund conservative-libertarian causes and candidates. Is there a skeleton in their closet?

 

[YukonGlocker]

There is a growing narrative that they are single-handedly buying political elections.

 

[ronny]

They're not liberal.

 

[andrsnsm]

There is a growing narrative that they are single-handedly buying political elections.

You mean like George Soros? Michael Bloomberg?

 

[YukonGlocker]

You mean like George Soros? Michael Bloomberg?

yes

 

[Dave70968]

You mean like George Soros? Michael Bloomberg?

Yes, but for the wrong side.

 

[Wheel Gun]

They're dangerous. They're spending all that money that they earned to protect Americans' individual liberties.

 

[YukonGlocker]

They're dangerous. They're spending all that money that they earned to protect Americans' individual liberties.

Yep...like to protect the freedom to have: abortions, gay marriage, gay adoption of children, from religion, etc.?

 

[RidgeHunter]

They're dangerous. They're spending all that money that they earned to protect Americans' individual liberties.

You don't get become make the top 5 wealthiest Americans by looking out for the little guy and individual liberties. The Koch's fight politically solely so they can make money more easily.

That said, yes, very smart guys. Very interesting family. Fred even moreso. How he built that empire is pretty interesting. Charles and David are ruthless. Ask their brother.

After months of hearing the mouthbreathing base of the waterhead right repeat that "Donald Trump is a brilliant businessman" I think I may have to reevaluate my position on the Koch brothers. Missing the Cheney/Rumsfeld days right about now.

 

[dennishoddy]

read:http://nypost.com/2014/03/16/loopy-liberals-freak-over-koch-brothers-100m-hospital-gift/

Loopy liberals freak over Koch brother’s $100M hospital gift
By Kyle Smith
New York Post |
On the surface, it appeared that a major New York hospital had gratefully accepted a $100 million gift from a philanthropic family with a long history of donating to the arts, higher learning and medicine.

But the new wing at New York-Presbyterian Hospital inspired a bizarre protest last weekend by activist groups including the NAACP New York State Conference, the New York State Nurses’ Association and the hospital-employee union SEIU Local 1199.

Surely there had to be a catch to the hospital wing. Why else would it be a source of such distress? Was there a provision that would cause all the nurses in the new wing to be replaced by voodoo priests?

Was the hospital secretly to be used as a gay re-education camp that would seek to use a combination of systematic exposure to Sylvester Stallone movies, shock therapy and prayer to destroy homosexual impulses in its patients?

Or was there simply to be a large sign posted at the door that read, “Sorry! Whites only.”

It turned out that none of these factors was at play. The new structure will simply be an ordinary wing of a hospital doing regular hospital stuff like saving lives, charging $25 for a Tylenol and (equally important to the unions, you would think) employing lots of healthcare professionals. The $100 million gift was the largest in the hospital’s history.

No, the only thing the liberal interest groups didn’t like about the new hospital wing was its funding source: the philanthropist known as David H. Koch. The new wing was gratefully to be named after Koch, who along with his brother Charles stands as one of today’s great philanthropists.

Among the many David Koch gifts to this city alone are a previous $15 million to New York-Presbyterian’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, $30 million to Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, $25 million to the Hospital for Special Surgery, $20 million to a dinosaur exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, $65 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and $100 million to the Lincoln Center theater that is home to the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera.