Charles Koch vows to hold Republicans accountable

The Hill ^ | 07/29/18 | Jonathan Easley

[familyop]

Many of the influential oligarchs are descended from Eastern Europe, where oligarchs have long ruled communist nations. That’s what a few courageous people in the Trump Administration, a few members of Congress (a few more than 11 of them, IIRC) and a few others knew about.

Many voters in both political parties were unaware of it until seeing what the President and Administration have done since the election. We need to support them as if it’s our last chance.

Many more young people can be educated about what happened to our jobs over the past four decades, about how the wealthy oligarchs have been enslaving us through the Democrats and about why they want to take away our freedoms.

Use a hook (a term from journalism, the context of the discussion, something that concerns them, like their jobs, plans or relationships). Don’t be aggressive. Be patient. Let them know that they are all dear to you. Pretend to ignore the obvious flaws of their youth. Remember to share the knowledge one point at a time, gently and incrementally.

One good hook that a conversation can be started with is #FreeTommy. Another is to tell them about some of the more positive living conditions in the past with a young person’s perspective in mind (those of you who are getting old, like me, heh).

[familyop]

"Until they get the axe and the disposables wizen up and trash all of them, the Republicans will always struggle, when they shouldn't have to."

Well, restrict that to the primaries as long as President Trump is in office. Campaign and vote in the primaries, but don't leave the President with a Democrat majority in Congress. Vote!

[Chgogal]

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[VideoDoctor]

And I VOW to bring the planet Pluto into synchronous orbit with the earth.

Koch may have money but he's simply "blowing to the galleries."

[Chgogal]

Charles Koch who the hell elected you to represent us? Take your billions and __________!

Free trade does not equal fair trade. How are you benefiting from “free” trade at the expense of your fellow Americans? If you support ILLEGAL immigration than you are no better than a slave owner!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Unfortunately for you, President Trump is following through on his promises of securing the borders and pursuing fair trade through the use of tariffs.

[bert]

Remember....... you have been declared a liar as is exibited by your recent fake post that is both made up and untrue

[Lurkinanloomin]

I remember that you oppose the President’s efforts to improve our trade policy.

[bert]

No, I did not.

By negotiating bi lateral trade agreements the President is not only supporting but creating favorable environmen t for increased international trade.

I support his efforts to increase international trade whole heartedly.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Then stop attacking central_va for supporting the same thing.

[bert]

No, the man is obsessed with anachhronist tariff policies that have been roundly dismissed by the American peoplefor many years. He has no understanding of what makes America great and longs for the 19th centuary that is long gone.

The man regularly several times a day in fact, violates federal Trade Mark law by perpetuating his Fair Traitor TM hoax.

Why do you attack me with lies in support of his ackward foolishness?

The business of America is business. You apparently also oppose that concept

[Lurkinanloomin]

The President is currently using those tariff policies, that have been dismissed not by the citizens but by the free traitors that have profited from the shipping of jobs overseas and importing the workers for the jobs that can’t be exported, to improve the playing field in favor of US citizens.
Trade should benefit all of US, not just the favored few.

[stilloftyhenight]

Stinking Globalists. NOT on our side. David had to step down....why is that, Charles. Have you learned nothing?

[bert]

Jobs were not shipped overseas.

Production in most instances was subcontracted abroad because products produced by American labor or in American plants were unsalable because they were not competative in the market. Maintaining the work here would have caused the jobs to be destroyed by bankruptcy.

There are lots of reasons for the uncompetative situation but the jobs were not exported. That is just hype.

Jobs do not belong to an individual. E#very job is the result of need to get something accomplished. Accomplishment is the objective, not providing jobs.

[Dawgreg]

Thanks!!

[Garth Tater]

"Jobs were not shipped overseas."

"Production in most instances was subcontracted abroad because products produced by American labor or in American plants were unsalable because they were not competative in the market. Maintaining the work here would have caused the jobs to be destroyed by bankruptcy."

Yeah bert, it's almost like we would have had to prevent the importation of goods produced by slave labor in order to save American jobs and American businesses from being destroyed. I wonder how we could have done something like that?

[bert]

Your concept of slave labor producing manufactured goods is just foolish.

Besides, what about Indomesia, Thailand, Korea and Taiwan? Do your foolishly beleive those countries have slaves?

Yoy will never admit it but most chines exports are prodiced by Chicaps, not Chicoms

Like it or not, but it is not youer daddy’s Oldsmobile

[central_va]

Taiwan has an average import tariff over 7%. We charge them 2%. What the hell is that “free trade”?

[central_va]

Free Traitor™ anti American worker policies are throwing Americans into the arms of the socialists. Thanks Free Traitors™.

[Garth Tater]

"The business of America is business. You apparently also oppose that concept"

Nice bit of sloganeering there bert but I think you are quoting President Coolidge out of context. Here is another quote from the same speech that you lifted his "business of America is business" quote that more fully explains his beliefs in the proper placement of "business" in our nation's priorities:

"It is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want very much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists. That is the only motive to which they ever give any strong and lasting reaction."

That quote puts a bit of a different light on your "business of America is business" quote doesn't it? Your man Calvin was a big supporter of business, but of business in its proper relationship to life and especially to the lives of free men. Calvin did not support doing business with any communists - not even if they could use their slave labor camps to provide our markets with cheaper goods.

Calvin was actually a strong supporter of protective trade barriers as evidenced by his administration's support for the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act. Here, in his own words, is your man's thoughts on protective trade barriers:

"The greatest asset of our whole economic system is its effect upon commerce, agriculture, industry, the wage earner, and the farmer, and practically all our producers and distributors, is our incomparable home market. It has always been a fundamental principle of the Republican Party that this market should be reserved in the first instance for the consumption of our domestic products… Our only defense against the cheap production, low wages and low standard of living which exist abroad, and our only method of maintaining our own standards, is through a protective tariff. We need protection as a national policy, to be applied wherever it is required."