The Koch Brothers, whose combined worth makes them the third richest people in America, have been covertly funding the Tea Party movement through their support of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. They have consistently been against almost all of Obama's policies, and have used their vast fortunes to fight such things as new environmental laws (their corporations are the 10th biggest air polluter in the U.S.), and support California's Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would suspend the state's global-warming law.
It is, of course, completely within their rights as citizens and tax payers to fund whatever they want. It's also within their rights to be dishonest about whom and what they are supporting. It's within your rights not to buy products produced by their companies. These include Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, Mardi Gras napkins and towels and Quilted Northern toilet paper, Dixie cups, Georgia-Pacific lumber, Stainmaster carpet, and Lycra, to name a few.
Will your banning these products affect the Kochs' bottom line? Probably not. But, at least you know that your purchase won't be supporting the Tea Party and the Right Wing Agenda for America.
For more information on the Kochs, please check out this great article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
wow--very interesting and frustrating that corporations care about $$$ more than the welfare of the environment and its inhabitants. Lucky for me (and others) I don't purchase any of those products.
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