So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a couple other major multimillionaires and billionaires on the right who were also funding this project and they figured out that from their standpoint politicians are just actors who are spouting lines andthe key to changing america is to write the script. How do you get to write the script . Well, you have to change kind of the whole way that elite opinion is formed in the country. There happened to have been right around the same time, a little bit earlier, a paper that was the blueprint for all of
Only way we will win. In to do things like that and the matter has gone too far now we have no choice but to act in a reduced need to call on the courage to resilience. I was Young Americans everywhere to know to call on the spirit of the 16th president of ameritech, Abraham Lincoln a common man who rose to be an common leader. And with extraordinary desire that went through so much loss that ended that the emerging at enormously critical time that is what i want American Children to be taught it doesnt matter how much you disappoint or fight the great thing about america is to get the opportunity other countries dont give you that opportunity but this gives you the greatest chance to succeed and that is something that we need to break to people and the personal story of Abraham Lincoln has propelled me throughout my life a man whose first love died he lost six elections and had a terrible relationship with his father and had no indication whatsoever no College Education everything he
Probably the richest their brothers in the world, certainly in america who are very Strong Political views and have taken fortune over the last 40 years to try doing a america. They spent in very targeted ways in interesting ways to try to change the whole direction of american politics. Poster what are their names and where are they located . Guest charles koch and david koch are the ones that people think of the Koch Brothers. 11 wichita, kansas where Coke Industries is based. David lives in new york. He is the wealthiest in manhattan. They are actually two other Koch Brothers that people dont talk about too much. There is bill koch and fred koch. You talk about hear about them than about the mostly dont much in the headlines. Host why not . Guest they are not as political and in some ways they are losers and a huge family struggle but to this over the years. And at that kind of struggle and the family for who is going to control the family company. A huge privately owned company tha
You cant have a novel without an audience and the fact there is this eager public wanting to know about the world around, wanted to know how life works, and he keeps this kind of thread of connection within the novel i think. You had the feeling rebellion against delivery status quo when you stumble into money in 2000 willing to learn about it and talk to bankers about it. At the point, i since you have some animosity towards going on in london. That it wasnt just a detached interest. I started the novel thinking it was going to be a crash. I started a book, describing a bubble, and thinking it would be a dramatic iron in some classic sense, when the audience knows something but the people onstage dont. Michael and i both had our flies undone, that would be a dramatic irony. A daytime tv kind. So my fear was the audience would know. Im describing this at the bank is being pleased with themselv themselves, and the reader would know a crash is coming. So i was really, really interested w
Support. Just minutes ago, the Michigan House of representatives passed the socalled right to work bill. It passed 58 to 52. Six republicans voted know, but the bill passed. And believe me if they can do this in michigan they can do it anywhere in the country. It gives new meaning to the term lameduck session. The bill basically eviscerates bargaining. Its a move to cut off the resources that give labor unions their strength. In addition to people funding, we have seen this work before. There is no doubt whats going on here. It is a war on unions. It is a war on the democratic party. Today, a Lansing State Journal photographer captured this video as waves of union sportupporters and police flooded the State Capitol trying to stop the bill. The capitol was locked down. Police say they arrested eight people inside, and even used a chemical spray to regain control control. Outside, Union Supporters marched in solidarity the bill exempted unions representing Police Officers and firefighter