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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on March 02, 2011, 11:25:00 PM

Title: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: IronDioPriest on March 02, 2011, 11:25:00 PM: This makes me smile.

Wisc. Public Employees Invest in Koch-Owned Company (http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/01/wisc-public-employees-invest-koch-owned-company#ixzz1FVZV8LSZ)

The vitriol from protesting Wisconsin workers towards the Kochs emerged quickly and intensely. Signs ranging between lame and vulgar (often both) dot the public-union marches.

But what the protesters don't realize is that they actually have a reason to root for the Koch brothers.
According to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the Wisconsin Retirement System owns $5.5 million in Georgia Pacific corporate bonds. (Georgia Pacific is owned by Koch Industries.) This is the retirement system in which the overwhelming majority of state and local employees participate. These are the pension benefits that public employees are trying so hard to protect.

So here's the challenge: Explain to a Wisconsin state worker that they are the ones helping fund the Koch brothers. Then sit back and watch the fun.

From Fox Nation... (http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/01/wisc-public-employees-invest-koch-owned-company#ixzz1FVlFO2c1)
Title: Re: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: Glock32 on March 02, 2011, 11:29:20 PM: I would love to see them demand their funds be re-invested in companies that emphasize "social justice" and "green energy", and watch them lose their asses.
Title: Re: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: IronDioPriest on March 02, 2011, 11:32:10 PM: Quote from: Glock32 on March 02, 2011, 11:29:20 PM
I would love to see them demand their funds be re-invested in companies that emphasize "social justice" and "green energy", and watch them lose their asses.

Yeah, maybe they could redirect those investments into Chevy Volts and Nissan Leafs. (http://green.autoblog.com/2011/03/01/gm-sells-281-chevy-volts-february-nissan-67-leafs/)
Title: Re: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: Pandora on March 03, 2011, 02:40:34 AM: Assholes. Ignorant, hypocritical assholes.
Title: Re: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: Dan on March 03, 2011, 07:30:28 AM: You're right IDP...this does induce smiles!
Title: Re: Heh. WI Public Employee Pension Invests $5.5 Million... in Koch Industries!!!
Post by: ToddF on March 03, 2011, 08:02:53 AM: Reading the comments of people like "lulzanon" makes me realize there's a reason that the Koch brothers are who they are, and the "lulzanon"s are at the Noodle Co.s of the world, making youtube videos, talking about how they're going to overthrow of their fascist shift supervisors.

Just sayin'