Google The Koch Brothers...Just Once!

Or not. Not unless you want to know about the billionaire sibs who personally started and  still finance the so called “grass roots” Tea Party. You may not care that they own the prominent conservative think tanks and politicians who advocate shutting down the gummint unless we continue tax breaks and corporate welfare for the richest 2%, and force the rest of us to pay the bill. You may not be interested that Charles and David Koch, worth $21.5 billion…each, colluded with another mega-corp megalomaniac, billionaire Rupert Murdoch, a handful of other billionaires, and a couple of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, to buy the last election and that they were largely successful. To get just a taste of just some of the national politicians in Washington whom they now own, you may also refer to my post dated January 21, 2011, entitled, If We Did This, We’d Be Fired.

You probably have heard about the trouble in Wisconsin, but don’t Google the Koch brothers unless you want to know that they have bought and paid for Governor Scott Walker. Governor Walker actually created the fiscal crisis in Wisconsin, by giving huge tax breaks to mega-corps (guess who?) and then used the drop in revenue he created to justify taking away the collective bargaining rights of his 175,000, middle class public employees. Many days ago, these state troopers, firefighters, and teachers, etc. had agreed to the cuts in pay and benefits that Walker demanded, but the Republican Governor is holding out for a law that breaks the back of the only grass roots organization (public employees union) that hits the streets for Democratic candidates. This little scheme, along with political gerrymandering (redistricting) is being used simultaneously all over the country by the Tea/GOP to stamp out any and all pockets of support for Democrats. And guess who is behind all this?

You may not find it interesting that the two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, whom the Kochs have been wining and dining (Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia) are the same dudes who bestowed personal civil rights on corporations, by magically declaring them to be “persons,” under the U.S. Constitution, while taking a position that the same Constitution does not protect the rights of women.

If any of the above does not prompt you to Google the Koch brothers, you probably are not a   small business owner, a student, trying to get your child through school, unemployed, because your job got outsourced to Mumbai, a minority, a woman, retired, sick, have lousy, expensive health insurance, have no health insurance, a vet, a Democrat, an Independent, or work for a living. However, if you fit into any one or more of these categories, you might want to give it a try. You are being buggered by the Koch brothers even as you sit in rapt attention before Facebook, Dancing with the Stars or American Chopper. I can promise you that a simple Google search will provide an even more mind-blowing experience than J. Lo and Justin Bieber combined, followed by a permanent ability to smell the stench of every poop stew cooked up by Kochs & Friends. These titans of industry have an alarmingly few degrees of separation from just about every screwage coming from the very politicians whom you thought were elected to protect your interests. Each time you are once again forced to bend over and grab your ankles, you will be able to thank the Machiavellian Princes. And maybe by 2012, you might feel compelled to cast your next vote, based on the facts, instead of commercial sound-bytes and talking points.