Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Charles Koch: Humility, integrity more important than talent" video.

  1. His comment on Free Trade is complete BS, and he must know better. If it were not for tariffs imposed on imports during the formative years of the US the British would own this country and we would still be a plantation sending them cotton and having no industry at all. Same with South Korea, by protectionist policies the military government of South Korea raised the incomes of their people by seven times in their effort to become an industrial power. This man is a complete liar and manipulator. Read the book Bad Samaritans about Free Trade if you want to know the truth.
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  2. At the expense of democracy, education, civili rights and equality
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  3. +BiGSH0TROB PR, his TV image that he pays people to think about and create, while he works behind the scenes to pull the strings of politicians and if they refuse he funds their opponents. I don't call that honest. Why are they against campaign reform where they would have to list all the money they give and to who? They work very hard to keep that in the dark. Read Jane Mayer's book "Dark Money" if you don't get it.
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  4. I don't like the idea of calling someone who is rich successful. The two words are not equivalent, and there is such a thing as having a huge head start in life such as the Kochs being multimillionaires, or Donald Trump having a million dollars in the 60's to start his business. That is huge. Lots more people would be successful if they had these advantages and opportunities. And look what they have done with it, trying to take over the country, not by reason, not by good works, not by argument, but by stealth political schemes ... lying basically.
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  5. What a typical FOX misuse of the NEWS ... saying it is Obama that is putting the Koch's on an enemies list when the Koch's have been working to destroy Obama and keep Republicans from working with Democrats by force ... YES, and Republican that decides to compromise or to work with Demcrats gets unlimited money from the Koch brothers poured into his opponents campaign in the next election cycle. This FOX report is just more typical propaganda of what is wrong with the country and our politics.
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  6. He loves his Dad who worked for Third Reich, Germany in the time of WWII in the oil business and was a co-founder of the uber-right-wing John Birch Society. This is a family of fascists that is against the US system and wants to kill the government except for some very small functions to help industry. Just the Koch brothers, they money and a country full of potential slaves.
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  7. Never buy Koch Brothers' Products: • Angel Soft, Vanity Fair, Northern Bathroom Tissue • Sparkle or Brawny Paper Towels • Dixie Cups or Paper Plates • Georgia Pacific Copier/Printer Paper
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  8. +BiGSH0TROB >> Taxation is theft. That's all I need to hear from you to know you have no idea what you are talking about. A modest guy like Koch who wants to pay off and bribe the government into doing what they say. Government is the only think you have a say in how you live -- period. The Loch brother's don't give a damn. They don't care if their pollution goes into your living room window ... and they hate the goverment because you can vote for them to have to be responsible. But maybe you've already breathed too much pollution or drank too much lead.
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  9. +BiGSH0TROB >> You are forgetting that those evil people can, and often are in the government. No I am not ... when they are in government you can vote them out ... but you cannot do that with fascist rich people who own the government, the state, the country, and you. Don't tell me that you used to be a leftist ... well, maybe before you lost your mental faculties. This is all right-wing propaganda of the Kochian type. Go try to sell it to someone else.
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  10. +BiGSH0TROB Yes, some bad people control some of the government because certain social and economic trends have swamped democracy and our system. People like the Kochs have technically reverse engineered in system in a way that could not have happened 100 years ago and figured out how to corrupt the government, but do you throw out the baby with the bathwater and just give up to fascism? You think the bad people are the ones who are trying to help people by making the government work. Your terms and metrics are nonsensical. We know the answer. The answer is socialism, a way to distribute wealth and power - democratically - like every other developed country that is doing better than us is doing. You cannot argue logically against that so you argue by repeating the same thing multiple ways, Your argument against government is simplistic nonsense with nothing to back it up with more arguments against government. Look at other countries and you can see in almost every way the US trends are trends that bring us down. Our middle class is deteriorating to the point where it is economically the smallest of the developed countries in terms of wealth and power. You have to work pretty hard to be as ignorant and blind as you seem to be and to me it looks like there is no reason for it other than you are out here working for someone else, because I doubt you are a billionaire.
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