Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

So long it's the 'facts and truths' as accepted by David & Charles Koch. All other 'facts and truths' are unacceptable until they are approved by David & Charles Koch. That is why, as an example, scientists and engineers who work for Koch Industries work hard to create 'facts and truths' that fit the Koch ideology. If they do not do exactly as they are told, they might not get paid and loose their jobs. In this economy, that's a mighty powerful force to contend with.

scientists and engineers who work for Koch Industries work hard to create 'facts and truths' that fit the Koch ideology.

You are not very familiar with them. The scientists and engineers create pipelines and create and move energy, a key enemy of the Obama administrations policies. Have you considered the Obama administration may be limiting America's oil and gas policies strictly to limit the growth of the Koch business to the detriment of the entire nation?

How many jobs has Obama created vs the Koch's? How many more could they create with positive energy policies?

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Koch companies have a presence in nearly 60 countries and employ about 70,000 people. We continually search for new ways to create value wherever we operate: North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa, applying our core competencies globally across a wide span of industry areas.

"We continually search for new ways to create value..." Value for whom??? Does that means that it's okay to exploit to depletion without due regard towards the effects of the consequences of those exploitations at the demise of those who live and work in those lands? Does all that is living gain in some manner in their pursuit of life and happiness when that value is created? Or is that value only for those who are at the top of these corporate/conglomerate hierarchies? What's the 'prosperity' for the ordinary working individual? Or should they just shave thier legs, and endenture themselves into slavery and work for little more than for food and for fuel just to survive?

I don't care if they are creating 500,000 jobs a month at Koch Industries. They have tried time and time again to poison any kind of "actual democracy" that this country has left. I'm not saying that the left doesn't have their fair share but these guys would kill their own if it meant their stocks would go up a nickel.

Step away from the James Bond movies Tom, SPECTRE is just a fictional organization, and such schemes are logistically impossible, hence why they occurr only in movies. Good God, this is like the Two Minutes of Hate from 1984.

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I figured that I didn't have to wait long before the tinfoil brigade began trotting out their Illuminati fantasies.

Oh, excuse me, but I just noticed Mister Joshua, Texasguy, and Dean Moriarty showed up. For a moment there, I thought you were talking about our Illumunati fantasies. But have come to realize that you were really talking about them trotting out their's. Should that be the case, my apologies, Orly Holmes.

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Exercise in mental agility.

A single school district in Atlanta with over 200 teachers and administrators in several schools from elementary through middle and high schools are caught in one of the largest cheating and kickbacks scandals to date affecting thousands of students.

As quickly as you can, connect the dots from Koch Industries to these ''educators''.

You may begin.... now.

Exercises in obfuscation however, will not cut it. Unfortunately for the citizens of the state of Georgia ,this is no ''fantasy''.The states AG is amassing enough man-hours as it is in bringing the biggest criminal education case in the nation to court that was concocted not by a couple of Koch brothers..

...but by teachers and educators....

Next to these, the Kochs look like choir boys.

Exercises in obfuscation however, will not cut it. Unfortunately for the citizens of the state of Georgia ,this is no ''fantasy''.The states AG is amassing enough man-hours as it is in bringing the biggest criminal education case in the nation to court that was concocted not by a couple of Koch brothers..

...but by teachers and educators....

Next to these, the Kochs look like choir boys.

Errata: Double-entry.

Truth hurts.

Doesn't it.....?

Quantum leaps. The interests of a single union against hundreds of millions of Americans. The Kochs are not quite ''megalomaniacal'' yet.

..As they haven't been able to buy off an entire American political party.....

they've been fighting for expanded funding for the last 30 years because the GOP has been out to under-fund and or eliminate public education in this country for equally as long. the two factors are intertwined, of that there is no doubt.

Neither are you are getting this. While the Kochs may not ''represent'' the vaules of hundreds of millions of Americans, neither do the antics of the eternally corrupt and well-politically positioned AFT. The GOP has actually sent ever higher amounts in their trillions to education all through their tenure as majority from 1994-2006 in Congress, and 2000-2008 in the WH [ indeed, one of Bushs very first acts was the gigantic Education Bill, which he signed under Ted Kennedys authorship].

After such scenes as Georgia, and huge holes in state budgets due precisely to massive public sector union [ largely, AFT] pensions in which these unions place pressure on their leash-held political hacks [ all Democrats to a man/woman] that would force state taxpayers to foot their bills, and with the shoddy, lousy educational standing of American schoolkids in even the most basic disciplines of the ''three Rs'', Americans are demanding what they are getting for their money. With American education, especially as run by union hacks, the scenario is as simple as it is direct. Americans who are paying for a Cadilliac are getting an Edsel to drive instead.

Angelo Belcher

How about children working 18 hours a day for pennies?

Many states and their TParty/Repub leaders are fighting to destroy the minimum wage and child labor laws.

The only beneficiary of this war against the working/middle class is wealth, the elite, big business; i.e. the Kochs, Waltons, DeVos and their ilk. Noone can argue that it is for the good of children that they be abused, used and bruised.