http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/22/david-koch-spokesman-tells-hurricane-sandy-victims-to-suck-it-up/
In a week when this guy is almost universally panned as the country’s biggest @!$%#, a perennial contender managed to slip under the radar. The election is over, but David Koch is already threatening sitting Republicans with a hurricane of attack ads if they dare divert money from his pockets and into the pockets of the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
From Lee Fong of The Nation (emphasis added):
Earlier this week, AFP, which is chaired by Koch and believed to be financed by several other plutocrats from the New York City region, released a letter warning members of Congress not to vote for the proposed federal aid package for victims of the storm that swept New Jersey, New York City and much of the surrounding area in October. An announcement on the group’s website says that the vote next week for the Sandy aid package will be a “key vote”—meaning senators who support sending money for reconstruction could face an avalanche of attack ads in their next election. Already, opposition to the bill is growing, although it passed one procedural hurdle last night.There is some legitimate criticism with aspects of the legislation, including the fact that some of the money will go to non-Sandy related reconstruction efforts in disaster areas. For AFP, however, the whole bill must die and victims of the storm deserve no help from the government.
this my friends is another call to arms, the money monsters are again nipping at our butts for personal gain. they have warned us so IMO our next move is all voters in favor of Koch et al don't have to worry about being primaried because they'll know they have no votes coming.
sell us out we'll send to back to the angry hate filled arms of your bribers this time it won't be a ski trip in Aspen.
Koch’s top deputy in New Jersey, a surly gentleman named Steve Lonegan, who heads the local AFP state chapter, called the aid package a “disgrace.” “This is not a federal government responsibility,” Lonegan told reporters. “We need to suck it up and be responsible for taking care of ourselves.”
Are you laughing yet? Of course not, you have a heart, but dismay would be appropriate. While David Koch is telling people who have lost their homes – arguably partly caused by climate change, which is made worse by companies like his – to “suck it up,” he is sucking off the government teat. Yasha Levine does a great job of outlining the many ways in which the Koch Industries are welfare queens that are the envy of all welfare queens. Oil holdings and paper sales aside, the Koch brothers owe much of their wealth to tax loopholes and tax subsidies.
even Scrooge McDuck had the occasional compassion for those less fortunate and he could swim in his money, Koch no salvation coming
