I couldn't get through the four pages either .. I SURE don't blame you . . ;) ...........I tried earlier, I thought to myself, my god .. you SHOULD ..............know this stuff! ... . .just couldn't make it past the first page either .... so sick of all these evil people!
end p 4 - And some donors in the network suggested to POLITICO that they’re ready to re-up with the brothers.
“They love America enough that they’re going to do whatever they can to keep America great,” said Wyoming mutual fund pioneer Foster Friess, who attends the meetings. “I absolutely love the love that those people have for America. If you go to those seminars, they care so much about giving people opportunity and giving them the opportunity to excel.”
Foster Friess, a retired mutual-fund investor from Wyoming who was the backer of the main Super PAC supporting the Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum, expounded on this view in a video interview in February. “People don’t realize how wealthy people self-tax,” he said. “If you have a certain cause, an art museum or a symphony, and you want to support it, it would be nice if you had the choice.” The middle class anonymously and nervously pays its thirty-five per cent to the I.R.S., while the super-rich pay fourteen per cent, and are then praised for giving five or ten per cent more to pet causes, often with the perk of having their names engraved above the door.
----- Their message: You don’t have to sign up for Obamacare. “What we’re trying to communicate is, ‘No, you’re actually not required to buy health insurance,’” Generation Opportunity President Evan Feinberg told Yahoo News in an interview about the campaign. “You might have to pay a fine, but that’s going to be cheaper for you and better for you.” -----
So, the big idea here is that young people should decline health insurance? Having no health insurance is “better for you?” When a car accident happens, or someone is sent to the hospital needing critical care, who picks up the bill? For slash-and-burn Koch groups, that doesn’t seem to matter.
Notably, the young men and women hired .. http://generationopportunity.org/staff/#axzz2fLDCX4Jt .. by Generation Opportunity are provided health insurance, says organization’s communications director David Pasch, who spoke to TheNation.com over the phone. Lucky them.
Ethan Rome, the executive director of Health Care for America Now, says young Americans without health insurance will be “buried by bills and unable to recover for the rest of their lives.” “What they’re advocating is seriously unconscionable,” says Rome in response to Generation Opportunity’s call for youth to go uninsured.
Generation Opportunity also told Yahoo News that it will be passing out pizza and hosting tailgate parties to promote its campaign of opposing health insurance.
These antics, of course, are nothing new for the Koch brothers and their endless array of front groups. In the nineties, Koch-funded fronts fought .. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/may96/background/health_debate_page3.html .. healthcare reform by sponsoring a “broken-down bus wreathed in red tape symbolizing government bureaucracy and hitched to a tow truck labeled, ‘This is Clinton Health Care.’?” They also fought environmental regulations, from acid rain to industrial air pollutants, not through sound policy arguments but by sponsoring populist-appearing agit-prop .. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/04/01/174612/koch-pollution-astroturf-2deca/ . More recently, Koch fronts have paid for moonbounces .. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/11/08/174838/koch-epa-regulations/ .. and other festival-type forms of outreach to lobby on issues critical to Koch Industries’ bottom line, like weakening the Environmental Protection Agency rules that affect Koch-owned facilities.
In the end, Koch operatives seem willing to use any marketing device that works, regardless of the truth or how it might affect regular people. In this case, encouraging young Americans to abandon health insurance is worth scoring political points against healthcare reform.
Uninsured Blogger Gets Hospitalized, Friend Says Donations Will Help Pay For Daughters’ Dance Lessons
If you don’t follow the blogosphere closely, you may not be familiar with the case of Caleb Howe. Caleb is a conservative blogger who writes for RedState.com, and who wound up in a North Carolina hospital in July, in critical condition due to a failing liver. Thankfully Caleb is on his way to recovery now, and is “working hard on healing.” We certainly wish him a complete and speedy recovery.
Sites as diverse as ThinkProgress and Breitbart.com have put out the call for donations to a fund that has been set up to help Howe with his expenses. All well and good. This is America, after all, and Americans step up for each other in hard times. RedState’s boss Erick Erickson made it clear in his appeal that the donations would be for the benefit of Caleb’s family, but he left out one detail: Howe has no medical insurance.
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