The rightwing industrialists have spent millions funding opinion-forming propaganda to undermine a vital public service
Robert Greenwald
guardian.co.uk,
Documents and interviews unearthed in recent months by Brave New Foundation researchers
illustrate a $28.4m Koch business that has manufactured 297
commentaries, 200 reports, 56 studies and six books distorting social
security's effectiveness and purpose. Together, the publications reveal a
vast cottage industry comprised of Koch brothers' spokespeople, front groups, thinktanks,
academics and elected officials, which has built a self-sustaining echo
chamber to transform fringe ideas into popular mainstream public policy
arguments.
"The Koch brothers job is to do everything they can to dismember government in general," Senator Bernie Sanders says in this video. "If you can destroy social security, you will have gone a long way forward in that effort." READ MORE
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