And Al Gore the soon to be Carbon cap and trade Billionaire...wake up folks!! A limousine liberal that will NEVER be affected by the taxes he inflicts on us.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > Let's not forget Georgie Soros, most beloved of the radical left haters! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: BillyG <wg...@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thu, December 10, 2009 1:39:26 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Radical Left - The Billionaires Behind The > Hate > >  > Obama liberal, till lately!! > > #2 Warren Buffett - The Forbes 400 Richest Americans 200909.30.09, 06:00 PM > EDT > America's favorite investor lost $10 billion in past 12 months on his > Berkshire Hathaway shares. > > > Previous:William Gates III Next:Lawrence Ellison > > > Complete Coverage: > The 400 Richest Americans > > Sort List By: > * Rank > * Name > * Net Worth > * Age > * Residence > * Source > > Michael Buckner/Getty Images > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > The Radical Right - The Billionaires Behind The Hate > > > > > > Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, > > and perhaps most effective > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> , opponents of > > President Obama's progressive agenda. They have been looming in the > > background of every major domestic policy dispute this year. > > > > > > Ranked as the 9th > > <http://www.forbes. com/lists/ 2009/54/rich- list-09_David- Koch_QMFE. > > html> > > richest men > > <http://www.forbes. com/lists/ 2009/54/rich- list-09_Charles- Koch_Z9KL. > > html\ > > > in America, the Koch brothers sit at the helm of Koch Industries, a > > massive privately owned conglomerate of manufacturing, oil, gas, and > > timber interests. They are best known for their wealth, as well as for > > their generous contributions > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> to the arts, cancer > > research, and the Smithsonian Institute. > > > > > > But David and Charles are also responsible for a vicious attack > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 12/07/koch- swiftboat- science/> campaign > > aimed directly at obstructing and killing progressive reform. Over the > > years, millions of dollars > > <http://mediamatters action.org/ transparency/ organization/ David_H_Koch_ > > Ch\ > > aritable_Foundation /grants> in Koch money has flowed to various > > right-wing think tanks, front groups, and publications. > > > > > > At the dawn of the Obama presidency, Koch groups quickly maneuvered to > > try to stop his first piece of signature legislation: the stimulus. The > > Koch-funded group "No Stimulus <http://nostimulus. com/?q=events> " > > launched television and radio ads deriding the recovery package as > > simply "pork" spending. > > > > The Cato Institute > > <http://www.exxonsec rets.org/ html/orgfactshee t.php?id= 21> -- founded by > > Charles -- as well as other Koch-funded think tanks like the Heritage > > Foundation <http://www.rightwin gwatch.org/ content/heritage -foundation> , > > produced a blizzard > > <http://www.cato- at-liberty. org/2008/ 01/24/stimulus- package-is- > > welfare-n\ > > ot-tax-cuts/> of reports > > <http://blog. heritage. org/2009/ 01/27/stimulus- 101-the-pelosi- > > reid-obama- \ > > debt-plan/> distorting the stimulus and calling for a return to > > Bush-style tax cuts to combat the recession. > > > > As their fronts were battling the stimulus, David's Americans for > > Prosperity (AFP) spent the opening months of the Obama presidency > > placing calls and helping to organize > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 04/09/lobbyists- planning- teaparties/> > > the very first "tea party" protests. AFP, founded in 1984 > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 12/07/koch- swiftboat- science/> by David > > and managed day to day by the astroturf lobbyist Tim Phillips > > <http://wonkroom. thinkprogress. org/2009/ 05/29/afp- timphillips- > > astroturf/ \ > > > , has spent much of the year mobilizing "tea party" opposition to > > health reform, clean energy legislation, and financial regulations. > > > > > > STOPPING CLEAN ENERGY: David Koch presents himself as a champion of > > science <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 12/07/koch- swiftboat- science/> . > > Next year, because of his donations, a wing of the Smithsonian will be > > named after him. Nevertheless, Koch has done more to undermine the > > public's understanding of climate change science than any other person > > in America. > > > > > > The Competitive Enterprise Institute, funded in part by Koch > > foundations, has waged an underhanded campaign > > <http://mediamatters .org/research/ 200912040022> to falsely charge that > > a set of hacked e-mails somehow unravels the scientific consensus that > > global warming is occurring. > > > > > > Koch finances the "Hot Air > > <http://www.hotairto ur.org/index. php?content= media> " tour, a nationwide > > roadshow using a balloon to depict climate change science as "hot air." > > Despite the brothers' extravagant wealth, Koch's Americans for > > Prosperity has run populist ads mocking environmentalists as spoiled > > brats more concerned about their "three homes and five cars > > <http://wonkroom. thinkprogress. org/2009/ 02/11/koch- billionaire- ads/> " > > than about economic conditions. > > > > > > In addition to its efforts to misinform the public, Koch Industries has > > spent nearly $9 million dollars > > <http://www.opensecr ets.org/lobby/ clientsum. php?lname= > > Koch+Industries&ye\ > > ar=2009> so far on direct lobbying, much of it on climate change > > legislation. With a team of Koch-funded operatives going as far as > > attempting to crash > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 12/07/koch- swiftboat- science/> the > > United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this week, the > > brothers may succeed in scuttling any prospect for addressing climate > > change. > > > > > > > > > > STOPPING HEALTH REFORM: Much of the fierce opposition to health reform > > can be credited to Koch organizations. As the health care debate began, > > AFP created a front group, known as "Patients United > > <http://patientsunit ednow.com/> ," dedicated itself to attacking > > Democratic health care reform proposals. Patients United has blanketed > > the country with ads distorting various > > <http://mediamatters action.org/ factcheck/ 200905270002> provisions of > > the health reform legislation, particularly the public option. > > > > > > Patients United even centered a media campaign > > <http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=XwLp2KJCLOQ> around Shona > > Robertson-Holmes, claiming she had a brain tumor the Canadian system > > refused to treat. However, the Ottawa Citizen reported > > <http://videocafe. crooksandliars. com/heather/ reality-check- > > shona-holmes- \ > > holmes-brain- tu> that Patients United has been exaggerating > > <http://videocafe. crooksandliars. com/heather/ reality-check- > > shona-holmes- \ > > holmes-brain- tu> Holmes' case, and that she in fact had a benign cyst. > > > > > > In their quest to block health care reform, Koch-funded groups have > > fostered extremism <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 07/28/dem- effigy-afp/> > > . A speaker with the roving Patients United bus tour repeatedly compared > > health reform to the Holocaust > > <http://yglesias. thinkprogress. org/archives/ 2009/08/american > > s-for-prospe\ > > rity-compares- health-care- reform-to- holocaust. php> while an > > eight-by-five foot banner at an AFP health care rally > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> with Rep. Michele > > Bachmann (R-MN) read, "National Socialist Health Care > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 11/05/holocaust- sign/> : Dachau, Germany" > > superimposed over corpses from a concentration camp. > > > > > > Although many were surprised at the level of anger AFP channeled > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 08/11/afp- perriello- townhall/> into > > Democratic healthcare town halls > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 07/31/recess- harassment- memo/> in > > August, it wasn't the first time Koch groups have helped to hijack the > > health reform debate. Back in 1994, Americans for Prosperity, then known > > as Citizens for a Sound Economy, worked closely with then-House Speaker > > Newt Gingrich to bring mobs of angry men > > <http://www.pbs. org/newshour/ forum/may96/ background/ health_debate_ > > page3.\ > > html> to health reform rallies with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. > > > > A LONG HISTORY OF STOPPING PROGRESS: The Koch brothers clearly have a > > financial stake in blocking reform. Koch Industry oil refineries are > > major carbon dioxide polluters, and George-Pacific, a Koch Industries > > timber subsidiary, is one of the largest contributors to the loss of > > carbon-sink capacity. > > > > > > According to the EPA, Koch Industries is responsible for over 300 oil > > spills > > <http://yosemite. epa.gov/opa/ admpress. nsf/016bcfb1deb9 fecd85256aca005d > > 74\ > > df/981d17e5ab07246f 8525686500621079 ?OpenDocument/> in the U.S. and has > > leaked three million gallons of crude oil into fisheries and drinking > > waters. So there are clear business-related reasons > > <http://thinkprogres s.org/2009/ 12/07/koch- swiftboat- science/> why Koch > > would want to block regulatory enforcement, clean energy, labor, and > > other reforms. > > > > > > But part of their opposition stems from a long family tradition of > > funding conservative movements to shift the country to the far right. > > Fred Koch, father of Charles and David and the company's namesake, > > helped to found > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> the John Birch > > Society in the late 1950s. > > > > > > The John Birch Society harnessed Cold War fears into hate against > > progressives > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> , warning that > > President Kennedy, Civil Rights activists, and organized labor were in > > league with communists. > > > > > > By presenting progressive reform as a capitulation to the Soviet Union > > <http://www.boston. com/bostonglobe/ editorial_ opinion/oped/ articles/ > > 2009/\ > > 12/06/in_glitzy_ shadows_a_ health_reform_ foe_lurks/> , Fred Koch and the > > other industrialists bankrolling the Birch Society were able to > > galvanize hundreds of thousands of middle class people into supporting > > their narrow agenda of cutting corporate taxes and avoiding consumer > > regulations. > > > > http://pr.thinkprog ress.org/ 2009/12/pr200912 08/index. html > > >
