Great Quote by President Theodore Roosevelt, who wasn’t impressed by John D. Rockefeller’s
setting up a foundation to help disperse his mountain of money. “No amount of charities in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them,”
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- "In the case of the Koch family, there’s plenty of misconduct to investigate - "
As Jane Mayer documents in her indispensable 2016 book Dark Money, the father of the Koch brothers, Fred Koch, built the family fortune in the 1930s by helping build oil refineries,
briefly for Stalin’s USSR and over the better part of a decade in Hitler’s Germany. Koch’s work for Germany played a major role in allowing the Nazi regime to achieve its goal of economic autarky,
freeing it from dependence on foreign oil and making possible Hitler’s military adventurism.
(And this explains the castle in Austria - a getaway I didn't understand until I read this)
A fierce anti-communist, Fred Koch seems to have regretted his quondam alliance with the Bolsheviks. He was more favorably disposed to the
other major dictatorship he worked for. “Although nobody agrees with me, I am of the opinion that the only sound countries in the world are Germany,
Italy, and Japan, simply because they are all working and working hard,” he wrote to a friend in 1938. Nazi Germany, Fred Koch felt, offered a salutary alternative
to the “feeding at the public trough” of the New Deal. These ideas might explain why the wealthy oil executive hired a Nazi governess to raise his sons.
Link: https://www.thenation.com/article/even-david-kochs-philanthropy-was-toxic/
Replies to: Great Quote by President Theodore Roosevelt, who wasn’t impressed by John D. Rockefeller’s
Odd that 120,000 people go to work for the Koch Family companies despite all of their evil. And, of
course, any rich person is evil according to the author. Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation...pure evil, I tell you. And, I certainly hope you never buy or ride in a Mercedes, Audi or BMW, because they all profited from working with the Nazi's and more so from jewish labor at concentration camps. IBM, GM and Ford also profited. But, hey, just focus on the one person you don't like.
You misinterpret what was in the Article if in fact you read the entire (short) piece.
But then, yes, what about the thousands of people they employ?
They also employ Judges, Congressmen, Senators and so on. Think about them when and ask questions.
I did read the the completely biased article.
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And you still got it wrong. Amazing!
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David Koch donated $150m to the cancer center that just treated RBG.
Hope she beats it.
There, that's how it's done Jim.
We don't root for people to die.
Did you read the article?
I’ll bet not, because you just knee-jerked your post.
You have to drop the hate Jim.
Roosevelt also said: "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
Odd how knowing who some one was and their history
can’t be talked about with the self righteous and The holier than thou crowd here.
It’s offensive without reason. And seeing how these two brothers influenced much in this country and little of it positive where it is this country suffers for their personal gain.
Yet the likes of this board now including you stick your heads in the sand and tell me to chill.
But you’ll all swear the four female freshman in congress are over exposed and shouted down here in this board as anti American, haters of Jews and so on. Senator Warren makes a claim which your side dislikes and it’s full go with attacks.
Yet these two pricks are a horror show as Americans so they’re valued because they make oodles of cash in a business they inherited. When you hear some not so savory details of their history - it’s some one is obviously a hater
Well, GFYSLF
History will judge them, it's not your place.
And even if you could destroy the Koch Bros, you can't especially not here... It wouldn't make you happy.
That makes about as much sense as a Cole or Eli or even a PBH post.
But the next time you bash the Clinton Foundation or Soros and then some D's politics you don't like, ask yourself which of the evils are you supporting
We know Koch bros are two whom you support
How do I support them?
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1st, did you bother to read the link?
2nd, Roosevelt quote for you and those on this board.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.
In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
And seeing you're in the mode of telling me to shut up about the Koch bros. I'll take that as your support of them.
Odd, for a board who claim Christianity, there's much purporting of false information here.
PS: I'll add another quote - apropos of the politics on this board.
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
No, because I don't care about the Koch brothers.
Just trying to help.
It's more about The Kochfather...
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Behind every great family there is a scandal. Ask Joe Kennedy. Bad karma like some will get on this
board with their vile hatred.
Oh, just knee jerk posting, once again.
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Not at all.
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Link: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-principles/