Koch Brothers vs. Nashville Transit: A Chilling Tale | National Review
"The dots connect themselves!
The half-awake citizen may be unaware just how dexterously the arms of the Kochtopus have reached into every precinct of American life.
Not one mile from my home stands a particularly egregious example: the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, home to the New York City Ballet.
Koch put up $100 million toward renovating the theater, but
consider his ulterior motives.
- Theaters like this one use a lot of floor wax.
- At intermission they serve drinks in plastic cups.
- Their seats are covered with upholstery.
- These are all byproducts of petroleum.
Get the picture?
Look deeper.
Just a couple of miles east of the Koch Theater there’s an actual Koch hospital: the New York–Presbyterian David H. Koch Center, a 740,000-square-foot ambulatory-care center that opened its doors this year with the aid of
another $100 million Koch gift.
Charity?
No.
Bonanza!
The
Kochs sell all kinds of items used in hospitals — medical devices, electronic components, and even hands-free paper-towel dispensers and stuffing for pillows.
In 2014, David and Charles Koch gave
$25 million to the United Negro College Fund.
Don’t see the connection?
Educated black people read more.
The Kochs own Flint Group, one of the world’s largest suppliers of printing ink.
...The latest dastardly Koch scheme was exposed on Monday, and for this we must thank Hiroko Tabuchi, a
climate-change reporter for the New York Times.
In classic 80-foot-blackboard fashion, Tabuchi laid out the devious conspiracy for us.
Using a front group called Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which deployed a
sneaky election-rigging tactic known as “talking to people,” the Kochs
destroyed a proposal for a light-rail system in Nashville, thus keeping commuters in their gas-guzzling cars and hastening the end of the world via global warming to protect the Kochs’ interests in the barbaric, malevolent seatbelt industry.
Actual sentence from the piece: “One of the mainstay companies of Koch Industries, the Kochs’ conglomerate, is a major producer of gasoline and asphalt, and also makes seatbelts, tires and other automotive parts.”
The dots connect themselves!
...So how much of their eleven-figure net worth did the Kochs’ AFP pump into Nashville in their fell scheme to protect their precious seatbelt industry?
Less than $10,000.
Apparently that largely went for a mailer sent out a week before the election..."
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