The idea that the Koch brothers are out to help ordinary people is laughable to anyone who follows politics, but the mainstream press is very willing to kiss the Koch ring and give the brothers a platform to redefine themselves as altruistic patriots who are looking out for the little guy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders was one of the first leaders on the left to speak out against the Koch agenda, and he absolutely destroyed the myth of the benevolent brothers Koch with a little bit of recent history. The Koch brothers want the government to have no role in anything domestic that does not involve aiding the wealthy and corporations. The Kochs’ idea of helping people involves taking away Social Security, Medicare, government regulations that protect people from environmental hazards, eliminating rules that help to keep our and water clean and safe, tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, and rolling back every bit of progress that has been made for working Americans since the New Deal.
The Koch brothers have money, but Bernie Sanders has a movement of millions of Americans behind him.
The Koch brothers launched their publicity tour because they are losing. Sen. Sanders is beating the billionaires with the facts, and the senator from Vermont used the truth to stop the Koch publicity machine dead in its tracks.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/04/bernie-sanders-blows-koch-publicity-tour-ten-megaton-truth-bomb.html
"Mrs. Obama was joined by the late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien during a visit to this sprawling desert installation to show her support for the 11,000 troops stationed here. She is visiting Qatar and Jordan this week to promote education for adolescent girls.
“This isn’t an easy post,” she said of a base where temperatures soar above 120 degrees in the summer. “You guys are doing the tough work.”
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