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Koch Buys Right to Pick FSU FacultyPosted on May 10, 2011
Billionaire Charles Koch pledged $1.5 million to Florida State University’s economics department three years ago with the stipulation that his staff would screen the faculty hired for a program on “political economy and free enterprise.” The St. Petersburg Times has cried foul, and rightfully so. We’re talking about a public university here. Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch continue to leverage wealth from Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in America, to wage war on government regulation, public benefits and labor rights. —KDG
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By Gmonst, May 10, 2011 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
Whats really left to be said?
Its obvious that the class war is going to be won by the rich. I see no serious tide of opposition rising, what small opposition is rising is to slow and haphazard to have any serious impact. We are led astray into ever more complex and time consuming modes of entertainment until we are left with no time for the contemplation in which a serious focus or understanding of the problem becomes clear.
Those few that do understand find their warnings falling on the deaf ears of those too distracted to listen. Those so called “news” sources from the entertainment-net are so filled with noise, confusion, and distorted truths that it becomes itself just another distracting element. It corrals the rising energy for change, justice, and freedom into straw-man battles over nonsensical ideas and non-existent boogie men. We become angry about non-issues while the real issues go on under the radar of most.
Not to be pessimistic, but I don’t see it getting better before it gets much worse. At some point the greed will push things too far, because the nature of greed is it doesn’t know when to stop. Even when stopping would be in the long term interest of the greedy, greed turns a person into a virus that will destroy that which sustains it in pursuit of just a little bit more. Greed is the addiction of accumulation. Helpful insofar as it spurns one to prepare for hardship in a harsh world, but like hunger for the obese, it becomes destructive in a world of unencumbered acquisition. As we mature into adults we are supposed to learn to control our greed, exercise higher mental functions to see the long term consequences of greedy behavior. Instead our logic has become corrupted by greed until it became just another of greed’s tools. We become slaves to our own self-centered needs loosing site of the forest for the trees. Eventually it will push too far and we will be killed off by our stupidity or we will wake up and become adults again because we have lost it all.
Report thisBy SarcastiCanuck, May 10, 2011 at 10:18 am Link to this comment
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Bend over America as the corporate fascist state becomes a reality in our time.All the great presidents warned of this but your latest breed are just schills for hire.Expect your kids to be programmed instead of educated in the near future.
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