Things don't necessarily go better with Koch.

[Atticus]

How much damn money do you boys need?

How much great food can you eat? How much wonderful wine can you drink? How many homes, limos, yachts, jets and other toys do you think are "enough"?

Does it ever---just fleetingly---cross your mind that with that fantastic wealth comes responsibility? Do you feel the least bit obliged to better the condition of at least some of your fellow men?

Rather than spending more billions just to "play the game", have you ever considered doing something kind and selfless with some of your wealth? You and a handful of other on this planet, have the ability to single-handedly fund a cure for some disease; save countless people from starvation or death by preventable disease. Why don't you?

You, too, are going to die one of these days. Will the world be improved by your life or your death?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Everyone makes the world a happier place

some when they enter, some when they leave.

[Rincewind]

2. I have thought for years

that the most addictive substance in the world is money. With a depressing large percentage of people, the more money they get, the more they want.I have read several times over the years that the people who complain the most about taxes are the people that already have more money than they could possibly spend in their entire lives. The more they get, the more they want. If they had 99.999% of all the money in the world, they would scream bloody murder about the 0.001% they didn't have.

[hfojvt]

3. my family pronounces our name as 'Cook'

So I am not sure why you are advocating raw foods. Then there are people like the former mayor of New York, my fake uncle Ed, who pronounces it as Kotch. Then there is another family in Wisconsin which prononces it as Koe.

According to one mini-bio that I read, my fake uncle Dave gives away half of his income every year to charity. Of course there are several caveats to that 1) things like Cato, Heritage and Americans for the Prosperous are set up as 'charities'; 2) he gets a tax deduction for doing so, and 3) his 'income' is only half the story since, according to the Forbes 400, his wealth grew from $6 billion to $12 billion in one or two years, in some sense he made #3 billion a year for those two years, but his official 'income' was perhaps 'only' $400,000 or so.

Vance Packard wrote a book about the super wealthy in the 1970s and according to him most of those rich people lived in company owned houses and their cars were officially owned by the company, so many of their living expenses are taken as business expenses and written off of corporate taxes, and they officially live on very little.

[Atticus]

4. I went to school with kids who spelled their name "Koch". One pronounced it "Cook" and

the other pronounced it "Coke".

My OP title was based on the only way I've heard these "Kochs'" name pronounce on the MSM.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Sort of like the last few scenes in "Chinatown"

great movie...