Fred Koch took his business to Russia after powerful oil companies opposed him. Fred is the father of the Koch brothers who love Paul Ryan. Fred is a co-funder of the John Birch Society that hates Communism. Was Fred a lover of Ayn Rand? Did Rand model Howard Roark after Fred Koch? Surely the John Birch Society echos Rand’s ideas, which prompted her to comment about her competition.
Lawrence O’Donnell suggested R MONEY is hiding the truth he took advantage of the amnesty program the Fed offered Americans who had Swiss Bank accounts in order to avoid paying taxes. If this is true, R MONEY would be a felon, who took from We the People, and gave to the Mormon Church. We are talking about Treason, and not mere Sedition. Religious fanatic, Bin Ladin, hit the Trade Towers in order to destroy our economy. R MONEY, and his ilk, did nore damage then this religious terrorist ever did.
To prove you are a Loyal American, let We the People demand our Representatives make it the law of the land that every candidate for high office show US ten tax returns. Surely Fred Koch did not pay the Soviet Union taxes? Hmmmmmmm! Did he pay bribes?
R ROMNEY is a prophet of the Mormon Church. If he plotted with others to not pay Federal Taxes, while at the same time strengthening his church, then we have a Mormon Cult not unlike the one on Prophet David Koresh founded, where he took tithe monies and bought arms in order to protect himself and his ideals.
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Fred Chase Koch (September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States.[2]
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1 Biography
2 Business career
3 Political views
4 References
5 External links
[edit] BiographyFred C. Koch was born in Quanah, Texas, the son of Mattie B. (née Mixson) and a Dutch immigrant, Harry Koch.[3] Harry began working as a printer’s apprentice in Workum, Netherlands. He worked over a year at printers shops in The Hague and in Germany before coming to the U.S. in 1888,[4] and owned the Tribune-Chief newspaper.[5][6] Fred attended Rice Institute in Houston from 1917 to 1919,[7] and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1922, where he obtained a degree in Chemical Engineering Practice.[8][7]
Fred C. Koch married Mary Robinson in Kansas City, Missouri in 1932. They had four sons: Frederick (b. 1933), Charles (b. 1935), and twins David (b. 1940) and William (b. 1940).[7] For the ore/oil tanker named after Fred’s wife, see Mary R. Koch.
[edit] Business careerKoch started his career with the Texas Company in Port Arthur, Texas,[7] and later became chief engineer with the Medway Oil & Storage Company on the Isle of Grain in Kent, England. In 1925 he joined a fellow MIT classmate, P.C. Keith, at Keith-Winkler Engineering in Wichita, Kansas. Following the departure of Keith in 1925,[9] the firm became Winkler-Koch Engineering Company.[1][7]
In 1927, Koch developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. This process led to bigger yields and helped smaller, independent oil companies compete. The larger oil companies instantly sued and filed 44 different lawsuits against Koch. Koch won all but one of the lawsuits. (That verdict was later overturned when it was revealed that the judge had been bribed.)[10]
Nevertheless, this litigation effectively put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. Koch turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union, where Winkler-Koch built 15 cracking units between 1929 and 1932. The company also built installations in countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.[1] In the early 1930s, Winkler-Koch hosted Soviet technicians for training. [11] The contract that Winkler-Koch signed with the Soviet government paid the company $5 million.[12][unreliable source?]
Having succeeded in securing the family fortune, Koch joined new partners in 1940 to create the Wood River Oil and Refining Company, which is today known as Koch Industries. In 1946 the firm acquired the Rock Island refinery and crude oil gathering system near Duncan, Oklahoma. Wood River was later renamed the Rock Island Oil and Refining Company.[13] In 1966 he turned over day-to-day management of the company to his son, Charles Koch.[14][15]
[edit] Political viewsDuring his time in the Soviet Union, Koch came to despise communism and Joseph Stalin’s regime,[6][5] writing in his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, that he found the Soviet Union to be “a land of hunger, misery, and terror”.[16].
During his time in the Soviet Union, he toured the countryside with his handler Jerome Livshitz. Livshitz gave Fred Koch what he would call a “liberal education in Communist techniques and methods” and Koch grew persuaded that the Soviet threat needed to be countered in America.[10]
According to his son, Charles, “Many of the Soviet engineers he worked with were longtime Bolsheviks who had helped bring on the revolution.” It deeply bothered Fred Koch that so many of those so committed to the Communist cause were later purged.[10]
He was one of the founding members of the John Birch Society.[17]
He claimed that the Democratic and Republican Parties were infiltrated by the Communist Party, and he supported Mussolini’s suppression of communists. He wrote that “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America,” and that “Welfare was a secret plot to attract rural blacks to cities, where they would foment a vicious race war.” [18]
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In an interview scheduled to be broadcast Thursday evening on NBC’s “Rock Center,” Ann Romney, the wife of the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, found herself facing some of the same questions that have dogged her husband’s campaign in recent weeks — namely, about the Romney family’s tax returns.
“There’s nothing we’re hiding,” Mrs. Romney told Natalie Morales, a correspondent for the show.
In a video clip released in advance of the show, Ms. Morales broached the subject of the Romneys’ finances and tax returns by acknowledging that it’s “not a question that’s welcome,” before asking, “Why not be transparent?”
“Have you seen how we’re attacked?” Mrs. Romney said, leaning forward in her chair. “Have you seen what’s happened?”
Mr. Romney has agreed to release just two years of his tax returns — from 2011, and an estimate from 2012 — but when pressed by Ms. Morales, Mrs. Romney stood her ground, echoing some of her husband’s talking points.
“We have been very transparent to what’s legally required of us,” she said. “But the more we release, the more we get attacked, the more we get questioned, the more we get pushed. And so we have done what’s legally required, and there’s going to be no more tax releases given.”
Mrs. Romney added that her husband had released financial disclosures during his time as governor of Massachusetts, and voters and reporters were welcome to look through those forms.
“Mitt is honest. His integrity is just golden,” she said. “Beyond paying our taxes, we also give 10 percent of our income to charity.” (Mrs. Romney was referring to the 10 percent of their income that the family tithes to the Mormon Church, in accordance with church tradition).
Explaining the couple’s reticence to release more information, she added, “It will just give them more ammunition.”
When Ms. Morales mentioned that some voters were worried about tax shelters and overseas accounts in her and Mr. Romney’s name, Mrs. Romney reiterated her initial point that the couple was following the rule of the law.
“There’s nothing we’re hiding,” she said. “We’ve had a blind trust for how many years. We don’t even know what’s in there.”
She joked: “I’ll be curious to see what’s in there, too.”
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