Koch Brothers accidentally promotes leftist agenda AGAIN!
A couple weeks ago a Koch Brothers study accidentally showed that Medicare For All would save the country $2 Trillion over 10 years, while covering everyone.
Strike One!
A few days later a Fox and Friends poll showed that their viewers overwhelmingly preferred Medicare For All.
Strike Two!
Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare for all' bill estimated to cost $32.6 trillion, new study says. Would the benefits outweigh the costs?
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) July 31, 2018
So the Koch Brothers went out and commissioned a poll designed to show that the American people are actually libertarians just like the Koch Brothers.
There's just one little teensy problem.
For instance, the poll found that 66 percent of Americans would find “government-paid college tuition” as a “very effective” or “somewhat effective solution” to social barriers, with more than half of those lining up on the “very effective” side.Americans For Prosperity, the Koch-funded political advocacy organization, campaigned against free college tuition in 2016, just as the idea was becoming a central plank of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. AFP Wisconsin called it a “terrible idea,” while the state director of AFP Colorado called it “pie-in-the-sky.”
A $15 minimum wage was almost as popular in the poll, with 35 percent saying it would be a very effective solution and a further 30 percent saying it would be a somewhat effective solution.
The Kochs, and groups they financially back, have campaigned against minimum wage laws for decades. In 1980, when David Koch ran alongside Ed Clark on the Libertarian Party ticket, aiming to become vice president, their platform included a promise to abolish all minimum wage laws...
A third of respondents believe that more regulation of Wall Street would be very effective, while 36 percent said it would be somewhat effective. Nearly seven in 10 respondents said increasing government assistance for child care would be a very or somewhat effective policy response to social barriers.
The top concern of those polled is the growing cost of health care, with 92 percent saying it is a problem. A combined 55 percent said a government-run health care system would be a very or somewhat effective policy response.
The idea of government run health care would be completely intolerable to the Koch network.
Strike Three!
At this rate the Koch brothers are doing more benefits than harm to socialism in America. So keep spending millions on those studies.
It's hilarious to see that the Koch brothers' billions can't change reality.
They seem to be honestly miffed that the working class of America just don't see the world like they do.
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Thanks, Chuck and Dave. You're doing our work for us.
At this rate, the Koch Bros will accidentally prove things like Universal Basic Income feasible. They have to know capitalism is going the way of the dodo at this point.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
UBI
There is an alternative to UBI and I don't like it, but think it is more likely:
Mass starvation and sterilization. The 1% have no use for unemployed proles so they kill them off. A good way to start is by building up the Army then using it to quell insurrection.
Putting sterilization junk in the environment is another prong. Eventually nothing is left but the 1%, their servants, and guards.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
And then
they replace the servants and guards with robots.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
Maybe, but more fun to humiliate human beings
Robotic guards, ala Terminator make sense though. But if you don't have human servants, who can you lord it over? Machines don't care.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
A Better Day is Dawning: "We-Are-Not-Humans"
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
If I were a billionaire oligarch, I would reject that idea
A world without people sounds lonely as hell. F**k the other oligarchs.
Beware the bullshit factories.
In fairness, all viewers of Fox and Friends are on Medicare.
Yes, I'm just being silly.
Maybe it is not so silly.
It is a bit dated but the results likely are the same.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550377/The-average-age-Fox-View...
So who do Millenials and Gen X watch?
Besides Facebook and Twitter.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
The looming battle between Trump and the Kochs.
Might be "strike four"!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/kochs-to-spend-millions-com...
Universal basic income is a conservative idea
It was supported by Richard Nixon and Milton Friedman among others. Maybe the Kochs will start supporting it.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Yes, I remember Nixon's negative income tax.
It's frightening that Richard Nixon was farther Left than today's Democrats.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Nixon was still pretty far right of yesterday's Democrats
Nixon was no Robert Kennedy and certainly wasn't an FDR.
Beware the bullshit factories.
True, but
To the Left of Clinton, Obama, Biden, Durbin, McAuliffe, Schumer, Pelosi ...
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.