Good times

The U.S. has the lowest income tax rate since 1950, private unions have been all but obliterated, Citizens United allows unlimited corporate mischief in political campaigns, the regulatory environment is about to be undone, the richest Americans are not coincidentally enjoying a new Gilded Age, and the Koch brothers have bamboozled millions of ordinary Americans into carrying their water with their astroturf tea party groups like Americans For Prosperity. 

Which makes me think this statement in a letter from the Koch brothers asking their gazillionaire friends to attend a retreat designed to keep the good time rollin' sounds somewhat hyperbolic (my emphasis):

"If not us, who? If not now, when?" said the letter, which invited other conservatives to a retreat in January in Rancho Mirage, Calif. "It is up to us to combat what is now the greatest assault on American freedom and prosperity in our lifetimes."