On 3/6/2015 7:41 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/6/15 7:25 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/6/2015 5:36 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/6/15 4:39 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
Watching the news about the oil train accident and fire in Illinois.
Firefighters had to back off, leaving equipment behind. Evacuations
of the area underway. Risk of Mississippi River becoming polluted
with oil.

This "oil train bomb" follows two other similar accidents recently.

Keystone pipeline anyone?



Naw. Let the Koch Brothers, et al, export their dirty oil through
Canadian ports.



The Koch brothers get a lot of bad press from the liberal left, mainly
due to their commitment to politically conservative causes. Their
political philosophies originated in their father, Fred Koch, who
deplored communism and believed strongly in America and private industry.

What you don't hear much about from the left is that Koch Industries
employs over 60,000 people on US soil, a third of whom are unionized.
They pay employees well and have received high praise for fair
collective bargaining with labor in their unionized businesses (like
Georgia Pacific).

Next time you use the head and reach for the toilet paper, you can thank
the unionized employees of GP ... owned and operated by Koch Industries.


The Koch Brothers are committed to destroying democracy in the United
States.


That's the standard liberal view due to their political activism,
influence and conservative philosophies. Because they are conservative
and believe in private business (Koch Industries is the second largest
private company in the USA) the liberal side tries to advocate boycotts
of Koch products. Pretty much impossible and dumb to do. Koch
Industries is as American as apple pie.

I am very familiar with three of Koch's businesses. One designs and
builds huge gas distillation towers that disassociate gases in the
air to produce the bottled oxygen, argon, nitrogen and other gases used
routinely in industry and in the medical fields. Another plant builds
the gas and liquid container tanks for trucks you see everyday on the
highways delivering product to end users. The third is a specialty
welding and fabrication plant for nuclear rated piping and tubing
for power plants and nuclear propulsion of naval ships.

All were/are well managed, excellent companies to work for.