{"id":665,"date":"2011-02-18T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=665"},"modified":"2011-04-26T22:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:18:26","slug":"wisconsin-is-a-battleground-against-the-billionaire-kochs-plan-to-break-labors-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Is a Battleground Against the Billionaire Kochs&#8217; Plan to Break Labor&#8217;s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Note: The Koch Brothers, the billionaires who started and fund the supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; Tea Party movement, are sons of Fred Koch, one of the\u00c2\u00a0founders of the John Birch Society.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_667\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-667\" data-attachment-id=\"667\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?attachment_id=667\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?fit=500%2C380\" data-orig-size=\"500,380\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"funny-health-care-protest-sign\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?fit=300%2C228\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?fit=500%2C380\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-667\" title=\"funny-health-care-protest-sign\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?resize=300%2C228\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?resize=300%2C228 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/funny-health-care-protest-sign.jpg?w=500 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tall guy&#39;s sign says, We have no idea what we are talking about.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>The war on Wisconsin employees isn&#8217;t just about the budget or Wisconsin: Koch toady Gov. Walker is just one soldier in the billionaire&#8217;s offensive to kill labor.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/149965\/wisconsin_is_a_battleground_against_the_billionaire_kochs%27_plan_to_break_labor%27s_back\">Read the story here:<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The Koch Brothers, the billionaires who started and fund the supposedly &#8220;grassroots&#8221; Tea Party movement, are sons of Fred Koch, one of the\u00c2\u00a0founders of the John Birch Society. The war on Wisconsin employees isn&#8217;t just about the budget or Wisconsin: Koch toady Gov. Walker is just one soldier in the billionaire&#8217;s offensive to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[154,152,153,155,151],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQeJ-aJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":683,"url":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=683","url_meta":{"origin":665,"position":0},"title":"How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting Government","author":"Shawn Hamilton","date":"March 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Koch's Tea Party libertarianism is actually a thin veneer for the company's long-running history of manipulating the market to pad Koch profits. 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