Addicted to Koch: Part 1
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 5th, 2014
Good morning!
Today and possibly for the rest of the week, unless I decide to give you a break, you’re going to get a big dose of Koch. I HOPE you can handle it.
Koch Fact Number 1: The Kochs want to abolish Social Security.
From BuzzFeed Politics.
The Next Level Of The Anti-Koch Campaign: Treat David Koch Like A Candidate For Office
Digging deep into the 1980s! When a Koch brother called Social Security a pyramid scheme.
A New Beginning by 1980 Libertarian presidential nominee Ed Clark. David Koch ran as vice president and funded the campaign.
WASHINGTON — In 1980, David Koch ran in and funded a presidential campaign that called Social Security “The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme” and promised to abolish and replace it.
In 2014, Democrats are hoping to use that fact to tar the Republicans he and his brother Charles are bankrolling in 2014. Welcome to the next phase of theDemocrats’ anti-Koch strategy this year: Treat the Kochs like a candidate for office and try to make Republicans answer for the Kochs’ libertarian ideology.
Democrats have already painted the Kochs as a shadowy pair pouring millions into the political process for their own ends. In recent months Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has made almost a daily point of invoking their names, calling them “moles” Tuesday, for instance. In North Carolina, supporters of Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan — a top target for Koch largesse — say Republicans benefitting from Koch spending need to say whether or not they agree with statements like the one about Social Security in 1980.
David Koch didn’t actually write the book that called for the abolition of Social Security, but he was the main driver of the presidential campaign that pushed for it in 1980. Koch ran as vice president on the Libertarian ticket helmed by Ed Clark, but according to a 1980 New York magazine report on the race was selected by Libertarian party leaders as VP candidate before Clark was selected to run for president, mostly because of his ability to give their campaign effort more money than it had ever seen before.
“They liked me, I guess,” Koch told New York. “But obviously, my ability to give unrestricted funds was a major consideration.”
In the end, Koch spent more than $2 million on campaign. Enough, Hagan supporters say, to make him responsible for the campaign’s message.
And so, using a copy of Clark’s 1980 campaign book A New Beginning as a jump-off point, Hagan’s supporters are beginning to vet Koch as a candidate for office, shopping around the kind of opposition research campaigns usually send out on their opponents, not the people running ad campaigns.
The book explicitly calls for the abolition of Social Security as well as calling it a pyramid scheme.
“The injustice of Social Security cries out for reform. Neither the individual worker nor the economy as a whole can it much longer,” reads the text. “The system is collapsing under its own weight and it is bringing us all down with it. We must start removing it from our backs.”
The book calls for replacing Social Security with “a new system based on voluntary, cooperative, decentralized market institutions instead of the current centralized and bureaucratic system.” Younger workers would see the government stop collecting Social Security taxes “and allowing them to invest that amount in private plans.”
Democrats hope voters will be skittish over Koch’s 1980 support for the abolition of Social Security when considering the candidates he’s supporting in North Carolina. For team Hagan, that means Thom Tillis, Republican speaker of the state House. Tillis will face several other Republicans in the Senate primary in May.
“David Koch put $2 million of his own money into running for vice president on a platform that explicitly advocated dismantling Social Security and has a long record of threatening to break the promise we’ve made our seniors,” said Ben Ray, communications director for the coordinated Democratic campaign in North Carolina. “Now the Kochs are spending many times that on Thom Tillis. It’s up to Tillis to answer for their dangerous views.”
The Social Security chapter from A New Beginning:
*K*O*C*H*O*D*
Readers: I noticed that the write on Sunday inspired many comments. I am still reading them and all I can really say is how shocked I am and not surprised. I would like to say more but I am pressed for time today, so I will save my thoughts for another day.
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August 5th, 2014 at 9:42 am
Al, I am a black woman who has found delight in your postings. I would like to communicate with you too. I can do it by the blog. I am 47. I manage a software company with 51 employees that I started in 92. I am a little overweight but I am going to try Zen Lill’s program. A friend who loves her and this blog has all her posts on it.
Linda, since neither of us may ever get to actually meet Mr. Al, why not be hospitable as we converse with him and let him decide if he wishes to actually meet one of the many ladies that find his dialogue intriguing?
I hope this is okay with you Al.
Beverly
August 5th, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Happy Birthday President Obama.
August 5th, 2014 at 12:43 pm
I guess as you say in the U.S.A., the cat’s out of the bag. No I am not in America. I live in Ireland. Thank you for the compliment, I think, Alycedale.
I do enjoy a good contest. I am a salvage competitor. I am also a bit of an entrepreneur. So Al if you are up for it. Let the games begin.
August 5th, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Michelle: I have said pretty much all I can about politics. We have a military who has been sworn to defend this country from all enemies. Both Foreign & Domestic. Well, I cannot think of an enemy more threatening than those two Koch brothers, foreign or domestic.
I think that they both gotta go, it is those two who are behind all the other bullshit going on. Who do you think owns those K-RATS on the supreme court, and whose money do you think bought the entire GOP.
The Koch brothers, two fuckheads who are as big a threat to our Democracy as the Japanese were when they attacked Pearl Harbor.
A whole weeks worth on just these two creeps, must be super condensed. For David Koch to invest $2 million of his own money, is like me investing 2 squares of toilet tissue. So it’s Tillis who will be their spokesman, fuck him too.
Beverly: Why not, it is OK with me, glad to hear you find my dialog intriguing, but please do not try to compete with Linda. Linda is the only woman I will ever call Sweetie on this blog.
Linda: I have not heard from you for a while, where ya been Sweetie? Hope all is well with you. Are you pissed at me?
August 5th, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Looks Like I posted a little to late.
August 5th, 2014 at 12:50 pm
Mischa, great title for the series…look forward to the week of this.
Beverly, you sound like an honest and lovely person and the ZL program is a nice low deprivation way of being the best version of yourself. I’ve been debating about running the ‘best you’ program again, I think it was 2 years ago in September that I ran it last, I’m glad your friend saved it for you. I don’t think Al is into deprivation either, & I’ll say it: I like your hospitable and classy attitude, (& no mention of panties)….that’s perfect.
Going to enjoy some sunshine now, luv, Zen Lill
August 5th, 2014 at 12:53 pm
LOL Al’a'mode I think you better dig into your pet name bag deeper, my two cents, I luv both these women. 💜💜 ZL
August 5th, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Linda: Having already won, Please do not get too savage with Michelle’s Readers. And I tried to not let that cat out of the bag, you did so your own self with the term muppet. You should have known better than to think I would assess you like that. Well, being sweet as you are, maybe I could be “salvaged” LOL, but I kind of doubt it.
Al fresco
August 5th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Zen Lill: I hear you, Good advice. With the games starting and all that, how many you think I will need? Half a dozen?
LOL, I don’t want to hurt anybodies feelings or pride. Help me Mrs. Wizard.
Al’a'mode
August 5th, 2014 at 6:49 pm
Whatever suits your Al-Go-Rythm lol…personally I’ll chat up (or date) no more than 3 at a time until the natural leader attracts me more. It’s just a ZL pattern and I don’t mind it, works well for natural attrition, enjoy the process 😉
Luv u Al, like a brother (just being clear for your women) – ZL
August 6th, 2014 at 7:12 am
Al, I could never be angry with you. I have a series of meetings coming up and I am trying to cram for the last two hours so I will be ready when these men who just don’t like taking orders from a woman make their proposals.
They keep making them and I keep turning them down because they don’t promote any women. I see the same old names put up for promotion year after year.
August 6th, 2014 at 7:24 am
I agree with you Al, the Koch brothers suck.
August 6th, 2014 at 7:48 am
Now that white people are contacting Ebola, you will be hearing about a “discovered” cure for the disease. The american scientists who help develop the AIDS virus and various other lethal virures to kill off the Africans are now running scared that they will be outed if the disease reaches white countries.
The British who were willing partners have threatened to unleash their MI6 on them if the disease hits the UK. One can believe their will be a few suicides, here in America, if it becomes anything like AIDS was. They will not be able to scurry off to some quiet place until it all blows over, like they did with the AIDS virus.
This time they will be running with a target on their backs. It is rumored they have about 40 other lethal viruses which they had planned to release in Africa periodically. These people killed and experimented on millions of Africans during their 50 year reign of terror. Now they just do it for the sport of it.
Releasing a deadly virus here and there along the coastline of Southern Africa is just a bit of sport to them. But now that they are worried that they make get murdered because of it, they are releasing the antidote to Ebola. They better hope the virus has mutated into a strain resistant to it.
August 6th, 2014 at 8:36 am
Michelle, here’s my nominee for LSOS. http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/opinion/cupp-interview-carly-fiorina/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Carly Fiorina slams Dems’ ‘War on Women’ campaign
August 8th, 2014 at 9:00 am
[…] Noted. I have given Fiorina membership to the LSOS […]