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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 01:32 PM
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Rachel Maddow on Thrusday's Show: Koch Bros. fire 13,000 in last 4 years
Edited on Sun Sep-25-11 01:36 PM by Stuart G
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/rachel-maddow-walkouts-koch_n_977590.html


Maddow then noted an interesting fact: that some of the richest people in America were worth more than the GDP of many, many of the nations who have gathered at the UN this week. She centered on the Koch brothers, the Tea Party backers whose name has become a curse word in some circles. Together, the brothers are worth $50 billion -- enough, Maddow noted, to purchase the island of Samoa 88 times, or to buy a very long list of other countries.

However, while the Kochs have only gotten richer, they have simultaneously laid off 13,000 workers in the last four years.


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So, the rich are job creators..guess not.
Leave it to Rachel to prove what assholes the Koch Brothers are.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 02:21 PM
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1. Can't raise taxes on the job creators
So therefore, the Kochs can pay more.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-25-11 03:32 PM
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2. So much for the "job creators" theory.....nt
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