Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Charles Koch on the Poor: Let Them Eat 'Economic Freedom' | The Nation

Charles Koch on the Poor: Let Them Eat 'Economic Freedom' | The Nation
"Charlie Koch’s 1 percent solution is only the latest excuse for this politics of cruelty. It’s like the right’s fake fretting—cue the violins!—that deficit spending “steals from future generations” (even as they steal from non-hypothetical children today), or that government assistance creates “a culture of dependency” (even as Koch Industries, to take one example, receives federal oil subsidies, government contracts and bailouts)."