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Could you even imagine someone who makes less than a million dollars a year actually voting for Tim Pawlenty? That would be the way to bring your friends and neighbors down, and you wouldn't have any Medicare or Social Security.
In the New York Times, it says Pawlenty finally said he supports the Republican budget plan which includes the plan to turn Medicare into vouchers.
The current Minnesota legislature is living proof that we need full corporate political campaign disclosures. How else would we the public know which extreme right-wing organizations such as Target Corporation and Americans for Koch Brothers' Prosperity are responsible for this mess we have in the Minnesota legislature?
All those Minnesota legislators that are working for the 'Americans for Koch Brothers Prosperity" don't care what is good for Minnesota business. They only want to help their beloved Koch brothers.
The Minnesota legislature is a good example of the dangers in letting extreme right-wing organizations like the Target Corporation or the Koch brothers' Americans for Koch Prosperity take over Minnesota's politics.
The Minnesota legislature is proof that the United States Supreme Court decision was wrong to open the floodgates so extreme right-wing corporations and political groups like Target Corporation and Americans for Koch Brothers' Prosperity can spend unlimited money and in effect buy legislators. I wish there were one Republican legislator who exhibited one sign that they had a mind of their own.
The correct name is 'Americans for Koch Prosperity'.
Now that we all know that one of the Tea Party's main goals is to destroy the working man and woman as evidenced in Wisconsin, it will be interesting to see who is still ignorant enough to buy into the Tea Party.
We must all remember that if the Target Stores and Best Buy backed candidate for Governor, Tom Emmer, had won, Minnesota would have the same union-busting going on as Wisconsin. This was all part of a nation-wide scheme by the Koch brothers to destroy unions throughout the country. The corporations who were assisting in this scheme are no friends of working people. Working people should not shop at these companies, only billionaire Tea Partiers should shop at Target now.
Throughout the US, the Repunlicans are working for union-busting, middle class busting, Social Security busting. It would be sickening if all of us were to lose the money we've paid into Social Security for years and years, because of the promises Republicans made to their Big Money financiers. Scott Walker and the Koch brothers are only the tip of the iceberg. Why won't one Republican speak out against Scott Walker?