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In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

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Charles Koch
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: November 1
Businessman
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Wichita
Kansas
Charles G. Koch
Charles de Ganahl Koch
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