Clippings from George S. Benson

THE tn:CATLR UAll.l. THURSDAY, MAACH.4, 1982 -~oo_ster Club· speaker say : .. , .Unemployment is main lJ.S, proh1eni . . . . . t ByDANA BEYERLE DAILY StaffWriter The three top problems fac ing America today are unemployment, the welfare system and the Soviet Union, a world traveler, educator and former mi~ionary to China told a packed Chamber of Commerce Rooster Coffee Club breakfast today. · Solving the first two by cutting both would produce the resources to tackle the last problem, Dr'. George Benson said. · The 84-year-old Benson blames high unemployment levels partly on both labor unions and the welfare system and says the tax burden of the latter helps prevent a rearmament of the nation's military to counter growing worldwide communist influence. Benson's address to the chamber membership today started a series of seminars he and two other members of the National Education Program delivered to public schools and the private sector here. Benson, president of the National Education Program and president emeritus of Harding College in Searcy, Ark., and Dr. E.R. Brannan and Dr. Kenneth Ryker headlined the "Free Enterprise Day'' activities co- sponsored by the chamber. · Benson's talk was on "Problems Fac– ing America Today." His message .was f:DAILY Photo by Billy Smith) _Lynn Ozi~r l~ft, and guest, Dr. George _Bens~~ - for.part of it. ~ si~g the auto workerJ . union as an , example, Benson salf unions monopolize influence over iJt . dustries that are forbidden by law ~ 1 monopolize the marketplace. ; "They can dictate prices and wag~ and they just-priced the auto industrt . out of the market" to the benefit cil Japan.which has cornered the televisioi market and may soon capture the autp market here, he said. , He says benefit and wage costs; $18 all hour in the auto industry, preve)!t modernization and rehabilitation of machinery and tools. Benson said ti$! United Auto Workers' union recent t1 billion wage concession to Ford Motor Co. is a step in the right direction. ; Benson also said the welfare system Is abused politically because it produces votes. He says the average tax burde!p on Americans· is 50 percent and half ef that supports welfare. Benson told Uie chamber audience a cut ib welfa(e abuse and benefits would .induce people towork. . · ~ Turning to Soviet influence and ~ danger to the U.S., Benson said tbe Soviet Union bas grown from a "nothing" country mllitarily at the end of World War II to the controlling in– fluence over one-third of the world's population. ' . ~ The breakfast in the Decatur Inn was sponsored by the Fint American Banlt. that America, "the greatest country on problems. It's a diciatorship." Earth," must.tackle three problems if it Benson said Soviet citizens are " tired is to survive. of being pushed around" but the only "All _countries ha~e problems," Ben- way they can protest is to cut produc– son said. 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