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Democrats Run Away From Obamacare
Posted: Feb 13, 2014
This is very, very interesting.;
Very interesting indeed considering this is from a - left-wing magazine.
[ In Reply To ..]Maybe, just maybe, parts of America are waking up.
from the article - sm
[ In Reply To ..]House Majority PAC says the ads are designed to combat smear campaigns orchestrated by conservatives against vulnerable Democrats running in competitive districts. Both races are listed as toss-ups by the Cook Political Report.
Read more: Obama: Democrats Run From Health Care Law for 2014 Midterm Elections | TIME.com http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/12/obamacare-democrats-2014-midterm-elections/#ixzz2tKDTG96X
Exactly. Good points made in the article - like (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]“The Koch brothers are spending unprecedented sums in an effort to mislead voters and distort Democrats’ records and House Majority PAC simply won’t let those charges go unanswered,” says Andy Stone, the group’s communications director. The commercials note that Garcia and Kirkpatrick fought to “hold insurance companies accountable” and prevent them from denying patients coverage because of pre-existing conditions. These are popular provisions — and they are law because of Obamacare, which the ads decline to note explicitly."
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"Republicans believe the bumpy debut of the Affordable Care Act is a gift that will propel them to sweeping victories in November. That conviction, Republican aides and strategists say, is part of the reason the GOP is wary of becoming embroiled in a divisive and distracting fight over immigration reform with the midterms looming. It also played a role in the House leadership’s decision to capitulate on Tuesday by voting to raise the federal borrowing limit without any strings attached, averting a skirmish capable of diverting voters’ attention from health care."
By the time elections roll around, people will mindful of the benefit of the ACA at that time. The rocky start may be a distant memory.
I'm thinking the Koch brothers are to counteract - George Soros
[ In Reply To ..]There are some people who believe that the presidency was bought, paid for and presented to Mr. Obama to promote their agenda of socialism, fascism, marxism, whatever you want to call it.
Like all those people in S. Florida who waited in line for 4 to 6 hours - to vote?
[ In Reply To ..]Did he pay them? Did he pay all the Republican governors who cut voting hours only for droves of voters turning out to support Obama?
Did he pay Romney to make an unfortunate statement that said 47% of Americans didn't matter?
About Soros:
"Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes.[10] Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to causes related to human rights, public health, and education. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary (1984â89)[8] and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest.[11] Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations."
Above is From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with the causes he promotes. Far more on the mainstream human level than anything the Koch Brothers stand for.
One paragraph on George Soros and you think he's great? - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]Guess you didn't read much further than that or you would have seen this:
On September 16, 1992, Black Wednesday, Soros' fund sold short more than $10 billion in pounds,[25] profiting from the UK government's reluctance to either raise its interest rates to levels comparable to those of other European Exchange Rate Mechanism countries or to float its currency. Finally, the UK withdrew from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, devaluing the pound, earning Soros an estimated $1.1 billion.
He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England" In 1997, the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.
In 1997, Soros had to close his foundation in Belarus after it was fined $3 million by the government for "tax and currency violations".
He was convicted of insider trading in France. He appealed but his conviction was upheld in 2011..
The above from that same article. The below from other references in that article:
He is against capitalism even though he made his millions in the markets and by destroying other countries, notable the UK and Hungary.
He is pushing, and believes wholly in, the New World Order. He was asked about his statement in The Age of Fallibility that "the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States", He has been pumping money into political groups and political candidates in the U.S. who will fight for NOW.
He funnels millions of dollars into former communist/socialist/fascist countries, into groups for decriminalization of marijuana, into Hillary’s presidential campaign in 2008 and now 2016.
“His public stance in favor of higher tax rates for the wealthy is nothing short of remarkable, in light of the fact that he, himself, has taken some noteworthy measures to avoid paying taxes of his own. Consider, for instance, that his multi-billion-dollar Quantum Fund is actually incorporated on the tiny island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, located in the Caribbean. As such, Soros avoids paying U.S. taxes on it. Americans who invest in his Fund likewise escape the tax man entirely.
By no means has the Quantum Fund been Soros's only foray into tax-avoiding, offshore business enterprises. Indeed, Soros's real-estate company, Mapeley Steps, is headquartered in yet another tax haven, Bermuda. In 2001 this firm purchased more than 600 buildings from Inland Revenue (Britain's equivalent of the IRS) and then leased them to the British government for a princely sum—but paid no taxes, thanks to the Bermuda address.
He consistently sided against proposals to lower or eliminate the estate tax (a.k.a. “death tax”), calling it “a valuable taxation” because it “does not interfere with wealth creation” and it “increases social equality.”
In 2003, Soros and some fellow billionaires went so far as to sign a public letter stating that a repeal of the estate tax “would enrich the heirs of America's millionaires and billionaires while hurting families who struggle to make ends meet.” Yet Soros has creatively found a way for his own heirs to avoid paying any estate taxes, as he once explained:
“A charitable trust is a very interesting tax gimmick. The idea is that you commit your assets to a trust and you put a certain amount of money into charity every year. And then after you have given the money for however many years, the principal that remains can be left [to one's heirs] without estate or gift tax. So this is the way I set up the trust for my children.”
He’s an avid proponent of cap-and-trade.
He is behind the amnesty for illegal immigrants and the following groups - all heavily funded by, or otherwise affiliated with, George Soros and his Open Society Institute -- were among the key organizers of the “immigrant-rights” demonstrations: ACORN, the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Community Change, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza, and the Gamaliel Foundation.
And some people wonder why other people hate George Soros. He's a manipulator. He buys people and countries. He destroys the monetary systems of countries. Shall I go on?
Thank you, Truthhurts. You sure have some good sources. - And spell it out loud and clear
[ In Reply To ..]without offending a single soul. Thank you!!!!!
Koch Bros #1 - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was "the biggest company you've never heard of." Now the shroud of secrecy has thankfully been lifted, revealing the $67 million that he and his brother Charles have quietly funneled to climate-denial front groups that are working to delay policies and regulations aimed at stopping global warming, most of which are part of the State Policy Network.
Today, the Kochs are being watched as a prime example of the corporate takeover of government. Their funding and co-opting of the Tea Party movement is now well documented.
Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch have a vested interest in delaying climate action: they've made billions from their ownership and control of Koch Industries, an oil corporation that is the second largest privately-held company in America (which also happens to have an especially poor environmental record). It's timely that more people are now aware of Charles and David Koch and just what they're up to. A growing awareness of these oil billionaires' destructive agenda has led to increased scrutiny and resistance from people and organizations all over the United States.
We continue to expose the connections between climate denial front groups and the secretive billionaires who are funding their efforts.
Case Studies: How Does Koch Industries Influence the Climate Debate?
See our 2012 update Koch Brothers Exposed: Fueling Climate Denial and Privatizing Democracy, demonstrating how the Kochs are part of a 40-year old blueprint to dominate democracy. This update was relesed in conjunction with the release of Brave New Foundation's Koch Brothers Exposed movie.
From Greenpeace's Toxics campaign: Toxic Koch: Keeping Americans at Risk of a Poison Gas Disaster
From our 2011 report update:
Dr. Willie Soon, a Career Fueled by Big Oil and Coal new!
Koch Front Groups Attack RGGI—The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Koch Industries Backs California Proposition 23
The Kochtopus Media Network
From our 2010 report:
The Koch-funded "ClimateGate" Echo Chamber
Polar Bear Junk Science and Koch Industries
The "Spanish Study" on Green Jobs and Koch Industries
The "Danish Study" on Wind Power and Koch Industries
Koch Organizations Instrumental in Dissemination of ACCF/NAM Claims
Download our full reports:
Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial, 2011 Update (PDF)
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine (PDF)
The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing that supports conservative special interest groups and think-tanks, with a strong focus on fighting environmental regulation, opposing clean energy legislation, and easing limits on industrial pollution. This money is typically funneled through one of three "charitable" foundations the Kochs have set up: the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation; the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation; and the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation.
Other resources:
Koch Industries profile on SourceWatch, a wiki project of the Center for Media and Democracy
Ongoing blog content on Koch Industries from ThinkProgress, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund
Koch Brothers Exposed video series from Brave New Foundation
Center for American Progress Action Fund report: The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know about the Financiers of the Radical Right [PDF]
Center for Public Integrity report on Koch federal lobbying activity: Koch’s Web of Influence
Common Cause resources from the Uncloaking the Kochs protest during Koch’s secret strategy meeting in Rancho Mirage, California.
Ongoing reporting on the Koch brothers from Alternet
Ongoing reporting on the Koch brothers from The Exiled
Audio recordings from inside the Koch's 2011 secret strategy meeting in Vail, CO is available at BradBlog with additional reporting at Mother Jones
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[ In Reply To ..]Sen. Mary Landrieu (D), who is up against three Republican challengers for her seat in Louisiana, is facing renewed attacks this week over her support for the Affordable Care Act. The Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity is out with a new ad featuring several people — who appear to be Louisiana residents — receiving notices in the mail that their insurance plans have been cancelled thanks to Obamacare. “Send Senator Landrieu a message: Obamacare is hurting Louisiana families,” the ad concludes.
But the people featured in the hard-hitting ad aren’t actually Louisiana residents at all. In reality, they’re paid actors hired by the right-wing group.
“Hiring professional actors to impersonate Louisiana families is low even for the billionaire Koch brothers,” the senator’s campaign manager, Adam Sullivan, told ABC News.
Over the past several months, Obamacare opponents have consistently struggled to find credible spokespeople for attacks on the health law, particularly in regards to the claim that Americans are unhappy with the fact that their existing policies are getting canceled. This past fall, the media profiled dozens of people who claimed that the federal health law was forcing them to purchase an expensive new plan — but most of those Obamacare “horror stories” were quickly debunked.
In reality, Obamacare is transforming the individual insurance market to prevent insurers from offering skimpy plans that don’t meet a minimum standard of coverage. Some of the people featured in the “horror stories” actually changed their tune once they realized how the health law’s new requirements could benefit them.
But Americans for Prosperity is sticking by its new ad. “I think the viewing public is savvy enough to distinguish between someone giving a personal story and something that is emblematic,” the group’s spokesperson told ABC News.
Indeed, it’s a not new tactic. The Koch-backed organization, which has poured millions into a misinformation campaign against health reform over the past several months, also hired a paid actress from Maryland to star in an anti-Obamacare ad targeted at Alaska residents.
In Louisiana, nearly 33,000 people had enrolled in new Obamacare plans by the end of January, according to the latest available data from the Health and Human Services Department. About 27 percent of the people enrolling in new plans are young people between the ages of 18 and 34, on par with the national average.
In a New York minute... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I'll take the Koch Brothers over George Soros and the BHLs any day, any time in a NY minute. I don't want a NWO!
So would Koch brothers as the NWO be more acceptable? - NM
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The Kochs are not proponents of NWO. - Soros is.
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Thank you for sticking to the FACTS. - nm
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We could debate who is the "enemy" for decades but - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]evidently, one side is more into ruling the world through monetary means and crashing economies and for socialism/fascism society, while the other would rather give to charity and work for freedom, lower taxes, etc.
As for Landrieu, the last time she came up for re-election, she had a very tough time back then. People in her district were frustrated with her only looking out for her own agenda and not the people she represents and they twanted her gone then.
My last word on the Koch Brothers:
To be sure, the Kochs have given "more than a hundred million dollars to right wing causes" (which is their right, by the way). But in the last decade, it's also worth noting the Kochs have given more than $600 million in pledged or donated money to arts, education, and medical research, including (but not limited to):
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell: $15 million
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: $25 million
The Hospital for Special Surgery: $26 million
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $30 million
Prostate Cancer Foundation: $41 million
Deerfield Academy: $68 million
Lincoln Center's NY State Theater: $100 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $139 million
They’re also among America’s most generous patrons of the arts – David Koch gave $100 million in 2008 to modernize the theatre at Lincoln Center in NYC and has donated $20 million to remodel the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
What are George Soros' contributions? Does George Soros donate to humanitarian groups or charity in THIS country, or just in socialistic European countries? I have not found any. Have you?
Nver saw this before. Looks like the K Bros are to be admired. - nm
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Yes, for sure and here's more - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Oil Spills
Koch Industries have made much of their money in the oil business. In 2000 they were fined the largest amount yet imposed upon a company under federal law. The $30 million fine was paid to resolve claims related to more than 300 oil spills in over six states, and an additional $5 million was ordered to be spent on environmental projects.
As the EPA reports, most of the spills occurred in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. One incident involved 100,000 gallons of oil spilled in Texas, which caused a 12-mile oil slick on Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay.
Anti-Worker
The Koch brothers have spent more that $34 million on groups and organizations that work against workers rights. Koch organizations have targeted key union efforts, such as fighting against public sector union pay raises, and arguing against unions having any political or organizing power.
The Koch brothers also gave money to political candidates to achieve their goals. Mother Jones's summarizes this diverse giving well:
According to Wisconsin campaign finance filings, Walker's gubernatorial campaign received $43,000 from the Koch Industries PAC during the 2010 election. That donation was his campaign's second-highest, behind $43,125 in contributions from housing and realtor groups in Wisconsin. The Koch's PAC also helped Walker via a familiar and much-used political maneuver designed to allow donors to skirt campaign finance limits. The PAC gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which in turn spent $65,000 on independent expenditures to support Walker. The RGA also spent a whopping $3.4 million on TV ads and mailers attacking Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Walker ended up beating Barrett by 5 points. The Koch money, no doubt, helped greatly.
Additionally, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, a tea party group, led the Stand With Walker campaign, which led support of the Governor's efforts to bust unions and fight against workers rights.
Anti-Healthcare
The Kochs financed the tea party's fight against health care reform through their tea party group, Americans for Prosperity.
Anti-Immigration
The Koch Brothers have funded anti-immigration legislation through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a conservative group that writes policies and offers them to state legislatures throughout the country for use. ALEC has been involved in a wide range of anti-immigration work, including Arizona's SB1070, which requires anyone thought to be an immigrant to produce paperwork.
Foreclosures
The Kochs fund think tanks that push for foreclosures on working people's houses. The Koch funded Reason Foundation has produced numerous reports saying that foreclosures should not be stopped. And the Koch funded Mercatus Center also presented congressional testimony stating that the foreclosures should not be stopped, and that there is no harm done to homeowners when their houses are foreclosed on.
Untold Millions
The Koch brothers' spending is structured, such that it is difficult for the public to know the full range of their political influence. With the Koch-supported Citizens United, and other attempts to fight against campaign finance reform, this trend of lack of transparency is only to get worse. The spending numbers that we do know are only the tip of the iceberg.
As if that list isn't frightening and offensive enough, there's even more that could be added to it! Visit our Koch Brothers Exposed site and Koch Brothers Exposed Facebook page to vote on the options and suggestion you own thoughts on what the worst thing is that the Koch brothers have done.
The Koch Brothers are - America's Heros.
[ In Reply To ..]Unions were part of the downfall of Detroit. The Volkswagen auto workers in TN just voted on opting out of the UAW. Unions are Ponzi schemes. Go, Koch Bros, go!!!
If Time magazine is - a left wing magazine
[ In Reply To ..]What do you consider a moderate or middle of the road magazine? Just because a magazine is about a variety of subjects and news of the day means it is left wing now?
any news source can be left wing if not what the right wing extreme wants want to hear.Just - my experience(NM)
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And the same goes vice versa - (NM2)
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