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freshwest

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21. And make many homeless or commit suicide. Population reduction is a major GOP goal.
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 06:51 PM
Jan 2015

Look for scores of media stories demonizing the disabled as they manufacture consent. After media outlets push the meme, they will report that the public approves of their echo, giving the GOP cover to do it!

They'll use many methods, faux scandals, tabloid stories and setting the disabled and and elderly against each other. Without unity, and appealing to human pettiness, it'll be easy.

The Koch agenda is right on schedule, and media will support it through diversions like the Bundy fiasco, giving non-stop media coverage because Sanders and Reid were getting traction in stories that revealed the GOP/Koch Libertarian agenda. This is in the David Koch Libertarian platform since 1980. Sanders put the whole thing online. And no, there's no change in LP state platform. This is still their philosophy.

They have gotten just about everything on their list, playing the CT, Tea, GOP and the public who don't understand what the world the Koch brothers are forcing on us to accept really. Note that Social Security and the Post Office are on the list:

BERNIE SANDERS Uncovers 1980 Koch Agenda- "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?"

What else do the Koch brothers want?

In 1980, David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980.


Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980:


We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.

We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.

We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.

We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.

We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.

We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.

We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.

We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.

As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.

We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.

We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.

We condemn compulsory education laws and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.

We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.

We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

We support abolition of the Department of Energy.

We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.

We demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.

We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.

We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.

We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.

We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.

We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and aid to the poor programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.

We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.

We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

We support the repeal of all state usury laws.


In other words, the agenda of the Koch brothers is not only to defund Obamacare. The agenda of the Koch brothers is to repeal every major piece of legislation that has been signed into law over the past 80 years that has protected the middle class, the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable in this country...

Tomorrow it will be Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, repealing the minimum wage. It seems to me that the Koch brothers will not be content until they get everything they believe they are entitled to.

Our great nation can no longer be hijacked by right-wing billionaires like the Koch brothers.

For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, for the sake of our economy, we have got to let democracy prevail.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a7980koch

to kpete:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024806298

We've heard these memes for years, Americans have come to believe this is how it has to be.

This is the future Americans voted for in 2010 and 2014, either directly by voting for the GOP, or living in the past and thinking the GOP wouldn't do this to us. This is from a half century agenda, as shown by Thom Hartmann:

Thom Hartmann: Conservative Millennials, Boomers & Libertarians all being Conned


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=44227

We need to check the list to see where we are now. Virtually every meme we see pushed has elements of these things, using F.U.D. and hyperbole. The goal is the same. A return to the days when there were only ten amendments to the Constitution which didn't work for quite a number of Americans. Clearly, the Koch Libertarian agenda will repeal everything that doesn't go along with their pre-Revolutionary War mindset. I'd say pre-Civil War, but the CSA said the Founding Fathers were insane to even pen the phrase, 'All Men Are Created Equal.' So they'll go back to the Articles of Confederation, which is what Richard Mack and others of his ilk promote.



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And DUer's maxrandb Jan 2015 #1
Yes some do Andy823 Jan 2015 #7
Yep, most of them fund the attacks against us. raouldukelives Jan 2015 #73
All DUers say that? Bandit Jan 2015 #10
Not all DUers. But no denying there are some long timers that say that shit. JTFrog Jan 2015 #72
If Brown was a typical Democrat, there would be a difference. jeff47 Jan 2015 #11
So let's not try to do better? daleanime Jan 2015 #14
The paid invaders do. nt valerief Jan 2015 #19
So do the utopians tabasco Jan 2015 #22
If critical Dems are "Utopians" demwing Jan 2015 #28
++++ Ed Suspicious Jan 2015 #62
maybe because it's been 40 years of 'gradual change' -- but for the worse. and yeah, dystopia is NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #49
No, it hasn't been 40 years of gradual change tabasco Jan 2015 #85
Since 1974 (40 years ago): NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #88
And this is a physical attack on you and me, i wish people would understand that randys1 Jan 2015 #30
Yea, there's still a difference. raindaddy Jan 2015 #38
I hope our party will display how different it is by publicizing and standing against all NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #53
A request nichomachus Jan 2015 #75
There is; there is a "60 vote threshold" only when Democrats are in charge. corkhead Jan 2015 #76
K & R for exposure. nt SunSeeker Jan 2015 #2
I hate these people. Seriously. TDale313 Jan 2015 #3
Seriously! Seniors, disabled, and veterans aren't even safe. JaneyVee Jan 2015 #4
Nor babies, ya know after the birth. Iliyah Jan 2015 #17
no, no no! Don't hate them! vlyons Jan 2015 #26
They're winning. Maybe if we hate them, we can win. I wish a plague to hit them and wipe them NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #55
GOP continues its war on the American people AZ Progressive Jan 2015 #5
Maybe atreides1 Jan 2015 #13
no not true grasswire Jan 2015 #31
Thank you. It very much suits their script to say "you voted for this" NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #56
Sorry, but that explains only what happened in the US House, not what happened in the Senate, and... Tarheel_Dem Jan 2015 #86
+ about a million! Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2015 #91
Single member districts put them and keeps them in the House. Ed Suspicious Jan 2015 #63
Day one and the GOP shows their intention. Hutzpa Jan 2015 #6
Well, that escalated quickly, really that got out of hand fast! underpants Jan 2015 #8
SSDI Requires Reallocation in 2016 toddwv Jan 2015 #9
And make many homeless or commit suicide. Population reduction is a major GOP goal. freshwest Jan 2015 #21
Welcome to Ayn Rand's vision vlyons Jan 2015 #27
Don't make me say something violent now... freshwest Jan 2015 #44
Koch vision => Return to DARK AGES!!! nt daredtowork Jan 2015 #43
The Koch brothers are textbook psychopaths... gregcrawford Jan 2015 #67
I have never MFM008 Jan 2015 #84
They don't want population reduction, they want desperate and abundant masses. TheKentuckian Jan 2015 #89
20% cut will literally put millions more on the street homeless Ramses Jan 2015 #50
I agree with all that except the last sentence. The disabled aren't able to create unrest. freshwest Jan 2015 #90
Does this impact SSI too? (nt) Recursion Jan 2015 #54
They are just f.....g mean. upaloopa Jan 2015 #12
They are the 1% sulphurdunn Jan 2015 #20
The GOP is a hate group. L0oniX Jan 2015 #33
Of course they did. The Reign of Terror commences. Arugula Latte Jan 2015 #15
I'm sure Obama will be pleased Oilwellian Jan 2015 #16
Doubtful; there's still nothing the GOP will give for it (nt) Recursion Jan 2015 #52
Yes, and it will apply to all the safety net -- except corporate welfare. NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #57
That was never happening. joshcryer Jan 2015 #61
this is incorrect drray23 Jan 2015 #74
Disingenuous, indeed. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #78
PAYMENT turbinetree Jan 2015 #18
They don't care who they hurt...they actually seem to enjoy their efforts to do so.n/t Jefferson23 Jan 2015 #23
Let's legalize suicide. SCVDem Jan 2015 #24
That will come, believe me. That's what the growth of hospice is all about. All talked up about NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #58
Some of those might be taken care of by Medicaid... OOPS! The GOP doesn't believe in that, either. freshwest Jan 2015 #25
What we've been expecting and what we will see more of in the next 2 years. C Moon Jan 2015 #29
That thousand bucks a month is barely enough to survive NightWatcher Jan 2015 #32
Is there any chance Dems have to stop this from going through? Liberalynn Jan 2015 #34
I hope my disabled son doesn't see this article. He just went to the ER for heart problems DebJ Jan 2015 #35
What a shock.... blackspade Jan 2015 #36
I hate Republicans. I have hated them for a very long time. stage left Jan 2015 #37
The GOP wants to feed the old and disabled to the lions. For starters. blkmusclmachine Jan 2015 #39
Yes. But first they'd like to steal any resources they have. NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #59
More wage theft... midnight Jan 2015 #40
K&R...Thanks for posting,JaneyVee red dog 1 Jan 2015 #41
This Video Describes They Plans for the Elderly Quite Accurately AndyTiedye Jan 2015 #42
Blood sucking leeches. JEB Jan 2015 #45
Yep no difference so I'll vote the way that good looking women on Fox told me too workinclasszero Jan 2015 #46
not beginning, just continuing in plain sight. niyad Jan 2015 #47
Calm down people! workinclasszero Jan 2015 #48
Poking the hornet's nest GaltFreeDiet Jan 2015 #51
I guess the Republicans want to create a battle over it madville Jan 2015 #60
I am just sick to death.... chillfactor Jan 2015 #64
Your new overlords have plans...... Historic NY Jan 2015 #65
The "consequence" of our last election should not be to ignor previous contracts, such as drynberg Jan 2015 #66
I think snail mail letters are important. Also talking with staff or riversedge Jan 2015 #68
Seniors overwhelmingly voted republican. You get what you vote for. n/t taught_me_patience Jan 2015 #69
Seniors were also subjected to the most vile propaganda thrown at them 24/7. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #70
The guy on Fox who claimed Republicans initiated Medicare may have meant Theodore Roosevelt. tclambert Jan 2015 #81
Thank you. Enthusiast Jan 2015 #87
This reminds me of the RWers who claim to be members of "The Party of Lincoln." Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2015 #92
"Seniors overwhelmingly voted republican. You get what you vote for" workinclasszero Jan 2015 #83
They are playing with fire RoccoR5955 Jan 2015 #71
This just breaks my heart. lovemydog Jan 2015 #77
that's what the gop does samsingh Jan 2015 #79
The GOP really really is the worlds largest death panel . geretogo Jan 2015 #80
This is economic terrorism. Ferd Berfel Jan 2015 #82
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