In what could only be considered fitting, seems the wealth the Koch brothers used to start the teaparty group with, their father began accumulating in the communist Soviet Union.     Seems  Fred invented a better process for turning oil into gasoline, but American companies wouldn't buy it.     So he had to take his ball and go to Russia to help our enemies by setting up 15 oil refineries. After they had their refineries, Stalin turned on  Freddy and he had to leave.     He came back to America,  still angry at America for being shunned.....he  draped himself in the flag and helped found the John Birch Society, a 1950's style 'fear and smear' group of   similar to the teaparty.     The billionaire Koch brothers represent the dark side of corporate America.       Koch Industries' units have stolen oil from federal lands, rigged prices with competitors, paid bribes to win contracts in six countries, sold oil equipment to Iran despite a U.S. ban, been charged with releasing tons of cancer-causing benzene into the atmosphere and have had five criminal convictions in the U.S. and Canada. 1 Meanwhile, brothers Charles and David Koch have relentlessly pushed for less government regulation, pumping millions of dollars from their foundations into right-wing groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute .
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