The Koch Goals Are Clear: Fund, Buy, Own, and Run America
Americans vs. the Koch's
Here we go again ... just like a gerbil on a wheel with
those two billionaire brothers. My question is simple: Why is that?
This story comes from
Media Matters here, in part with this introduction: “The Arizona
Republic
recently published an
editorial promoting Concerned Veterans for America 's
(CVA) efforts to privatize much of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
While the group is presented by the Republic as an impartial veterans
organization, it is actually a right-wing group backed by Charles and David
Koch and headed by a Fox News contributor.” And, also from the Washington Post here
which identified CVA as an “...organization that is part of the
of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers' political network.”
First, please allow me to remind everyone of the basis for the VA as seen
in these remarks:
President Abraham Lincoln in dedicating Gettysburg said in
part: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne
the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
With the words: “To care for him who shall have borne the
battle and for his widow, and his orphan.”
He was affirming the government’s obligation to care for
those injured during war and to provide for the families (widows and children)
of those who perished on the battlefield.
The government in the sense of his words means clearly that the
people as the public and thus, government are responsible, and not a pack of billionaires
bent on self interests and profit.
I can't say much more except leadership from those in the know about Vet issues are sorely needed to fix the VA - not a political action committee or team of ultra rich brothers.
FYI: Yes, I am a Marine Corps infantry combat Vet (VN era: two tours and three wounds).
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