David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims

[Fire Walk With Me]

This is a few days old, sorry if it's already been posted.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171906/david-koch-now-taking-aim-hurricane-sandy-victims#

Billionaire David Koch’s prime political organization, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), having failed in its $125 million quest to oust President Barack Obama, is now aiming at a slightly less sophisticated political target: victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy was the second most costly in American history, leaving 100 lives lost, over $50 billion in devastation and tens of thousands of damaged or destroyed homes. Legislative efforts to help those who survived Hurricane Sandy’s wrath will reach a major stumbling block.

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.

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Another reason they'd block Sandy Aid is to buy up the property to gentrify the area, and of course, to simply be land barons. Prime real estate, and some Far Rockaways residents were saying early after Sandy that this is exactly what would happen!

[Initech]

1. Well when the revolution happens we can rise up as one and take his money...

And use it for more productive things than destroying the American work force and belittling hurricane victims. Your move, Koch roaches.

[gulliver]

4. No need for a revolution. Just put in a huge estate tax.

Then time is on our side. The Koch Brothers are essentially nothings who got all of their money from their daddy. A massive estate tax would help prevent future problems like the Koch Brothers. It would prevent good businesses from falling into the hands of incompetent and degenerate offspring. It would reduce the deficit. It would also stick it to the Koch Brothers for being scum. It's an all around win.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. An astute DUer pointed out that much of the Koch's industry base will have to upgrade to recent EPA

standards next year or so, which is why they are desperate to vote in purchased politicians who will weaken the EPA.

Strengthen the EPA and it's another win!

[aquart]

11. And put stringent limits on family foundations.

The Koch brothers' wills are a time bomb waiting to explode in American politics.

[Bake]

21. At this point I'd rather see a revolution

Complete with guillotines.

Bake

[Trajan]

22. Liberals who advocate summary execution ...

Are not my kind of Liberals ...

In fact, I don't consider them Liberal at all ...

Reckless, amoral, homicidal ... not exactly Liberal qualities ...

And a desire to have heads detached from bodies using such a horrifying weapon seems more than barbaric ...

[Bake]

24. Actually the guillotine is fairly quick and painless.

Sorry I"m not liberal enough for you.

Bake

[Ohio Joe]

2. What a PoS...

There is no low these fuckers will not stoop to.

[BainsBane]

9. Evil incarnate

He and Wayne LaPierre, the dregs of humanity.

[Angry Dragon]

3. When I hear about the Kock brothers I think of the words of SATAN

Satan said: "Let the people burn and suffer"

[annabanana]

5. They never miss an opportunity to kick someone when they're down.

karma is sleeping

[dmr]

7. Isn't this extortion? n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Absolutely. n/t

[aquart]

10. This creature needs to be poor.

[kurtzapril4]

12. There were a bunch of tornadoes

in the south yesterday. There are a bunch of tornadoes in the south and midwest every year. 161 people were killed in ONE town, Joplin, MS on May 22, 2011. Let me know when the big rock stars came out to do benefits and telethons for them. Oh wait....they didn't?

[UtahLib]

15. How does this relate to the actions of the scumbag Koch brothers? I perceive diversion. n/t

[Lady Freedom Returns]

16. You mean Joplin Missouri. It took out 1/3 of the town.

No, they didn't. Some of the Branson Stars did a telethon thing and Mark Chapman Band did a song that 100% of the money made on iTunes went to help. But no big rock star, then again I was in a tent in the back of a church crying for a long time so I might have missed it.
Add= Obama did come. He said he would get more help for us. But, the sad part of Joplin is that it is ran by Republicans and you see at that time 2-3 of the council member of Joplin had big construction businesses.

[Patiod]

19. Reply of the Week!

I'd post the ROFL pic if your post weren't so sad, sincere and heartfelt.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

20. No one out side of Joplin, save for some of the volunteers, know what kind of mess was going on.

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The greed was the worse thing. People were coming in from all over to try to get a chunk of the money. Local contractors were using there influence on the council to keep certain building permits from being granted. FEMA was making many churches stop helping with the clean up. One church group was able to clean 1 house a day, FEMA came in and said they could not keep doing that. It was taking FEMA 1week to take a house down, some sort of paperwork thing most were guessing.

BTW cheek your insurances( yes plural). Many don't cover clean up cost. That iswhy the church was helping those that had insurance but no clean up coverage.Many low income people in Joplin lived in what was called family houses. They were passed down generation to generation so they would always have a home. And is why many were confused because FEMA helps those without insurance, so why close down the effort to help those that they don't.

[SDjack]

13. The rich had the same motive and plan for New Orleans after Katrina. nt

[Odin2005]

14. He's a sociopath. Ugh!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

17. I always thought it would be fitting for these guys to be assassinated in their sleep and for a note

to surface that says, "asking for higher taxes is not class warfare. THIS is class warfare."

[Patiod]

18. Classic Shock Doctrine (nt)

[Berlum]

23. Doubleplusungood