Even Forbes is reporting : Koch Brothers Behind Wisconsin Effort To Kill Public Unions

[sasha031]

As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here.
Mother Jones is reporting that much of the funding behind the Walker for Governor campaign came from none other than uber-conservatives, the infamous Koch Brothers.
Koch-backed groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation have long taken a very antagonistic view toward public-sector unions. Several of these groups have urged the eradication of these unions. The Kochs also invited Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, an anti-union outfit, to a June 2010 confab in Aspen, Colorado;

If you are reluctant to believe that this is a coordinated attack, consider this-This afternoon, Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union, sent a message to the Governor’s office agreeing to the cuts to pension & welfare benefits sought by Walker in his bill. The governor’s response was “nothing doing.” He wants the whole kit and kaboodle – the end of the collective bargaining rights of the public unions.
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/02/18/koch-brothers-behind-wisconsin-effort-to-kill-public-unions/
I recommend reading rest of article

[Faygo Kid]

1. It's clearly orchestrated, as all the new GOP governors carry out their masters' wishes.

There is no question that the Koch brothers (and Murdoch) are the puppetmasters.

Sorry, Glenn.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. A subversive coordinated treacherous plot to take over our government.

This is not a conspiracy theory or paranoid reaction it is a documented obvious plan. And it's getting them our money and power. Do we have any way to stop them?

[sasha031]

3. the only thing I know of is to keep shinng light on the truth

and support progressive candidates.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Boycott those two Birch-backgrounded bastards into bankruptcy

Georgia-Pacific Paper and Dixie Cups are their two most available consumer products.

[sasha031]

6. it would be nice to have a list of things that comes from Koch ind.

[w8liftinglady]

7. well... start here:

hope you have time
http://www.kochind.com/IndustryAreas/default.asp

[sasha031]

8. oh my god....

my only hope is that they are old and don't have heir's.

[Name removed]

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[Jack Rabbit]

10. Hopefully, we can just find something to hang on them rather than hang them

This isn't Mubarak's Egypt or Gaddqfy's Libya. Yet.

/s/
A former resident of Napa

[Mr Generic Other]

11. yes it is.

we just don't believe it yet.

[Major Hogwash]

5. They called Walker's bluff! Throw Walker out of office!!!

Recall him now!!

[riderinthestorm]

12. It is coordinated. I spoke with someone who knows.

Read Robert Reich's latest article. This is a nationwide coordinated effort to destroy the unions. Wisconsin is just the first. Walker will not be allowed to back down. His masters believe that the protests will die out because the teachers cannot legally strike so they will be forced to go home soon. Then they will simply enact the legislation.

[peacetalksforall]

13. K & R

[babylonsister]

14. Rec'd! Everyone needs to know this! nt

[conspirator]

15. If it's coordinated, can we call it what it is: a conspiracy?

And this only one of a thousand that rich people plan during lunch time, while having lobster and champagne.