I've bought practically all those products in the past. But you can bet I'll be spending my money more wisely in the future! Thank you to thegodarticle.com for doing the leg work on this.

OMG this has got to be the biggest most Left propaganda! I've seen this morning. So this article appears to be demonizing a manufacture for what? For using it's profits to influence political direction? Oh like the New York Times doesn't spend it's profit dollars in concert with the DNC? Peoples your emotions are being exploited for a political agenda, and this doesn't disturb you? Please tell me how many poor people create jobs in anything beyond the government social program? It's been your desire to have more with out working for it that will breed your hate and anger towards those that have been successful. Both sides influence our government. Defend your thesis to how you would like your government to be. Don't demonize those you oppose. You'll only support another's tyranny.

Mark, you sound a little apologetic to Joanie B, but I don't feel there's a need to be. The Kochs are not simply innocent entreprenuers needing a break. (BTW, just to clarify, they didn't achieve their success, their father did.) They buy their politicians to encourage them to change laws that exist for the public good so that they can continue to spew pollutants into the public air and water ways. Thus, they want the public to pay for a portion of their business model by making us pay for the clean up. They buy these politicians with nefarious tactics and spread hate, lies, and misinformation to falsify their intentions. And furthermore, you are not the Left. Don't let people like Joanie use that word against you. When we share the value that Jesus taught us, why is that being Left? I know people who can't even describe what left is, but they think it is really bad. People like the Koch brothers did that, so they've reduced our collective knoweledge and conversation, by funding the propoganda will destroy us. People like Joanie don't seem to be able to accept any new information except what they've been told to think. I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't a paid propagandist. They can't even see the forest for the trees when something goes against their brain-washing thinking. But that's why she's so aggitated. Stand up to these people. They need it.

As one of the protesters from this weekend's Uncloak the Kochs rally, I want to commend you for a wonderfully factual dissertation of these brothers' purchasing of our politicians and Supreme Court Justices. Thank you for helping to bring their dirty tactics of oppression and pollution to the forefront! Way to go, keep up the good work!

Amen to campaign finance reform, but good luck getting it enacted. Public financing of campaigns would be better than corporations lobbyists swaying them. The Koch Bros. had a meeting including two Supreme Court justices who were working on Citizens United (what an ironic name). Checks and balances? This weekend in Palm Springs they met with an influential Republican congressman. Now we hear that Wall St billionaires are manipulating the price of food (wheat, rice, etc) by buying futures for more food than exists. And the right doesn't want financial/Wall St reform. Pretty soon the American middle class will be in the streets protesting like the Egyptians. Corporatism is the enemy of the people, sending jobs to Asia, strangling health care and much more. Guys like the Koch Bros. are really bad guys. What can we do about them? Getting the issue out into the public attention is a good start.

They also give back a lot to their community, of which they started and I live, Wichita KS.

Joanie, as of the past umteen and more years, corporations have been hoarding money and taking jobs elsewhere. Where have you been. I watch the markets everyday, and these corporations have huge surplus profits they are sitting on. Boycotting is a tool used against any busines that has proven unjust. During the era of Civil Rights, boycotting was done all the time and can prove effective. As of late, I joined the Boycott against BP. It put a dent in their profits. In case you haven't noticed we are next to having no middle Class.Bottom line corporations don't provide jobs either.

My only reservation to your article is describing the Koch brothers as Libertarian with a "big L" (ie part of the Libertarian Party) As a member of the LP nationally I can attest that while we are for "very low taxes..." universally applying towards all equally, without favoritism. The Koch brothers are not Libertarian in that they actually deny the individual his due diligence and equality, in order to keep their accustomed status and wealth.

True Libertarianism and policy statements imho must look first at the individual and their rights. If they are not trumped then it slides down to step 2 business rights to operate within reason and simplified regulations and 3 open and small government issues and complete funding of those functions. Even with the Governor Walker scandals some Libertarians jumped on the business rights bandwagon but they are starting as most Libertarians do to coil back and look at the facts and realize there is more than meets the eye in the middle of the curd pile.

I would like to directly assert that "...very little corporate regulations, nearly no environmental regulations..." doesnt apply to Libertarians, the issue is simplified and easy for a high school graduate or common man to understand and regulations applied universally across the way, do away with the tier system of regulation based on how many employees are hired by said company. I hope that helps express my only reservation and I appreciate the information. On other pointe, Im an environmentalist and most of the LPers I know, including myself, both on the national and state level are home farmers, both in the urban and rural areas. They do it partially due to genetic controls over our food source and too save money on groceries to give to charity and feed the homeless with our excess and while LPers believe in open and free trade we also believe in core economic sustainability as essential and prudent.

@Kristen

Nobody is insulting GP (My house was built with GP products). We are not happy with the way the Koch brothers are spending their profits in ways that affect our lives in negative ways.

I sincerely hope your husband's job does not go overseas. If it does, I hope he is able to find another one quickly.

Thanks for letting me know which products to buy!

One again the left wants you to boycott something they don't like even if it puts someone else out of a job. Sounds like all these think tanks, network foundations, political groups, georgia pacific, their oils pipelines,and refineries that the Koch brothers are putting more people to work than Obama's stimulus plan

I would prefer the direct approach myself. If you don't like what the Koches do with their money, send them a letter... by boycotting, aren't you hurting the folks who work for them? who may be innocent "Christians" like yourself?