The Koch brothers, Charles and David, heads of Koch Industries, Georgia Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Invista and Molex, employing 60,000 Americans, adding greatly to the economy and tax base, make building and consumer products, electronics, pollution-control equipment, fibers, other products, and yes, natural gas and transportation fuels. Natural gas, which has done more to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions than all the windmills and solar panels, is also cheap and reliable. Transportation fuels from oil are an absolute necessity. (How would Obama get to all his fundraisers without it?) Or should we be paying $22/gallon for the biofuel Obama had the Navy buy, or the $150/gallon algae fuel he had the Navy also purchase. Crony capitalism.
Koch Industries is also doing research on biofuels, with their own money: free-market capitalism. The Koch brothers contribute hundreds of millions to charities, build hospital wings, cancer centers, develop and fund STEM programs designed to get girls interested in math and sciences. Yet they are vilified by the left and lied about and slandered on the Senate floor by Harry Reid – but then he is a Democrat, and they have a propensity for that.
On the other hand, we have Tom Steyer, billionaire hedge-fund manager (does that make him a Wall Street fat-cat type?), employing a secretary and perhaps a few office workers, contributing virtually nothing to the economy and giving us fictional scare stories. Yet he is canonized by liberals, including this far-left rag, offers $100 million to Democrats that support a green agenda. Sounds noble until looking below the surface.
Steyer, who earned much of his early money in gas and oil, and like so many of large Obama contributors, is now heavily invested in “green” businesses funded by Obama policies. Corrupt crony capitalism! The one thing that can be said for sure about these policies is that these “investors” are becoming much more wealthy. Both groups contribute to their political causes. The Koch brothers are not evil. Can we say that about Steyer and his ilk?
Robert Goodrich
Bayfield
