Forbes is just out with its richest 400 Americans. The Koch Brothers ranked fourth on the list, with $42 billion a piece.
According to Forbes the 400 richest Americans cumulatively have more money than ever before.
In other words, more American money is concentrated in the 400 richest Americans than ever before.
And together, two of the richest Americans with a total of $84 billion are determined to destroy democracy in America. The rich in America have succeeded in sucking up whatever growth we have in wealth. They are using that wealth to undermine and destroy the first democracy in the world.
For 40 years the Koch boys and their peers have used that wealth to destroy the incomes of millions of average Americans. While the richest Americans have sucked up more and more of our country’s wealth and ripped off all the rest of us.
For 40 years our wages have been stagnant, our pensions have been stolen, our healthcare has been assaulted. The cost of college has put millions of young people and their families into lifelong debt, even poverty.
• The Koch boys and their tiny but fabulously wealthy cadre are destroying voting rights.
• They’ve succeeded in getting 22 states to eliminate voting rights since the Supreme Court ripped the guts out of the Voting Rights Act.
• In state after state, governors and state legislators have done all they could to destroy labor unions.
• They’ve assaulted women’s rights.
• The Koch boys and their cadre are funding every right-wing nut who’s running for office.
• They’ve done all they can to stop healthcare reform and to defund Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.