Charles Koch Acknowledges His Advantages

Every year, the multi-billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch host a secretive "retreat" for hundreds of super-rich, arch-conservative donors.  They all eat, drink, makes speeches, congratulate each other on being super-rich, and make plans to more thoroughly take over the world.

At this year's little get-together a couple weeks ago, Charles Koch had this to say during his opening remarks:

"We grew up with every advantage.  Most of you had the same benefits that our parents gave David and me, that is, growing up appreciating and being imbued with the values and skills required for success."

Oh, I see.  Your advantages had nothing to do with inheriting a thriving business and a tremendous fortune from your father.  It was just about appreciating dear old Dad's values.  Beyond that, a pair of "we built it" self-made men.


(By the way, dear old daddy Fred Koch made his bundle teaching Josef Stalin how to drill for Russian oil and build pipelines in the 1930's.  Fred was a founding member of the John Birch Society, a virulent racist, and Red-Menace paranoiac.  Values.)