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Who controls this country? A very long, and interesting, article:

If the dead can’t vote in Chicago, should they be allowed to influence politics from the grave in Pittsburgh and Denver and New York?

The Koch brothers may be the most visible part of the Dead Billionaires club, but they are not the only New Deal-hating Libertarian elites funding the dismantling of the government of the United States from within.

A handful of the wealthiest families in America, all of whose great wealth dates back at least one American generation. They are 100% responsible for the political gridlock that is tearing America apart. The media touts this as a recent phenomenon, but it is part of a more than 40 year campaign by the Pre-New Deal robber barons and their offspring to end the social safety net, end union labor, and return America to the Right, white control of the early Industrial Age.

“They took the long view, investing to build institutions that might take a decade or more to mature. They also adopted a broad agenda that went far beyond business and economics to include such subjects as foreign policy, law, religion, history and even cultural criticism, “ James Pierson, Executive Director of the John M. Olin Foundation, a Dead Billionaire’s Club VIP organization, wrote of the top members of the “club.” [1]

Were it not for the millions that they pour into the political system, their far-Right Libertarian agenda would be voiceless and invisible.

The Dead Billionaires Club are a fraction of a fraction. Not even 1% of the 1%. Yet, because of the billions they hold, and the millions that their families have put into “charitable” foundations, long after the scions of the family are gone and dead, guys like Fred Koch and Adolph Coors are still able to affect modern politics from the Great Beyond by dominating the Republican Party’s funding stream, and influencing a large part of the corporate-owned media.

Etc. etc.

http://truth-2-power.com/2011/12/13/...uld-they-give/