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In case you were wondering who bankrolls the politicians who led the charge on shutting down the government and threatening a technical default.

(1)  The Koch Brothers, much of which has been written about.  They are billionaires who made their money in Oil & Gas and no doubt are no fans of alternative energy or taxes on their income.

(2)  Richard Stephenson, founder and chairman of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, which somehow will suffer from the Affordable Health Care Act.

(3)  Jackson Stephens, who runs a biotech firm and is of the Arkansas Stephens Inc Investment Bank family.  No doubt he does not want to pay higher taxes either.

All these guys are billionaires and supply big %'s of Tea Party organization budgets and Tea Party politician fund raising.