I am reading a book called "Good Profit". By Charles Koch. It has changed and confirmed my view that he and his brother should keep their money out of politics. I agree completely with his business philosophy, it obviously works for Koch Industries, but why I asked myself. Because he and his brother own most of it and are not subject to the vagaries of Wall Street and its short term self interest. Whilst Koch Industries stays private and Charles stays close to the business I am sure it will continue to succeed. But what comes after Charles. Riches to Rags in 3 genrations I would imagine and predict. But I wish he would stay out of politics. Using his money and the way he is using it is, IMO, not good. If he invested the same money in his business, I suspect he would be even wealthier and more successful. It would be very good if his principles could be applied to politics, but he hasn't succeeded at all. His support for the Tea Party is totally contrary to the beliefs he promotes for his business. His #1 guiding principle. "INTEGRITY" is no where that I see in anything he has promoted with his money. Quite the contrary. I think he should take his money and bury it with him, when he meets the demise of everyone's human destiny.
They have a right to be heard, just because they are more successful and have more options to make themselves heard does not make it wrong. Just like its not wrong for a celebrity to use their popularity to support a candidate or cause.
I'm delighted that the American Left's bêtes noires are exercising their right to put their money into politics. Somebody's gotta counter the mountains of cash that "progressive" fat cats Tom Steyer, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, et al, are spending...
It's funny how the people who scream about the "evil Koch brothers" (capitalists) are silent about George Soros (socialist).
Everyone should have an equal say in their government, otherwise it is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy. When someone has a great deal of money such as Soros, the Koch Brothers, and other billionaires as well, and they are able to push their own agenda's in the government rather than having the government work for the majority of the American people, then the whole system is faulty and needs to be completely overhauled. Someone asked Dr. Paul Craig Roberts who really runs America and he said: 1 - The industrial military complex 2 - Oil companies 3 - Drug companies 4 - Aipac 5 - Agri companies After reading an expose by an investigative journalist, I would add Saudi Arabia as well. There are others, and they all contribute to both parties so that their needs are served above the needs of the majority of the people in the US.
...or Tom Steyer, who dumped a whopping $75.4 million into Democrat/Leftist coffers in 2014 alone. That's almost TEN times more money than both Koch brothers spent during the same time. Who came in at #2? Leftist fat cat Michael Bloomberg who blew $28.5 million. But you know how it goes with "progressive" hypocrites: Democrat money good, Republican money bad.
*shrug* There are many people who I wish would not contribute to politics. Not sure I have a right to exclude them though.
