Politicus USA - The actual amount announced at the Rancho Mirage Ritz Carlton is $889 million -- that is what the Koch brothers’ political network (17 Koch-funded organizations) plans to spend buying the 2016 elections for corporate America and the 1 percent.
It is, as CNN informs us, “More money than any private network has ever spent on an election cycle.” It is also as much as either the Republicans or Democrats spend: Compare this to the $675 million spent by the Republican Party in 2012. And the Kochs can spend the money however they want, unlike the RNC.
How much money is that? With a budget of $20 per person you could feed nearly 50 million people better meals than most of them have ever had for one day.
If you go by the approximately $3 the USDA reimburses schools for free student lunches, that $889 million would feed 296 million children. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service said 21 million kids received free or reduced-price lunches in 2013. You do the math.
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The Kochs were written into the New Constitution in McCutcheon and then given free reign in CRomnibus. Just as Madison had planned it, two people should control the government with a seoaration of powers between Charles an David, like the Roman pro consuls.
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