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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1981
Dinner brings in $8,000 for GOP
Spending maddens Chiles
By GARY BARKER
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The only way to keep the U.S.
from going over the brink into so
cialism is to cut government
spending, says free enterprise
advocate Eddie Chiles.
Chiles, known for his “I’m
mad’’ radio broadcasts, addressed
more than 275 people at the First
Annual Teddy Roosevelt Fund
Raising Dinner held at the Brazos
Center Tuesday.
The purpose of the $25-a-plate
dinner was to raise money for the
Brazos County chapter of the Re
publican Party. Katye Kowiers-
chke, county party chairman, said
the dinner brought in about
$8,000.
Part of the money will be used
to pay off the campaign debts of
three Brazos County Republicans
— County Attorney Jeff Brown,
County Constable Winfred Pitt-
mann and County Commissioner
Billy Beard — who attended the
dinner.
Chiles, chairman of The West
ern Co. and owner of the Texas
Rangers baseball team, said he
hopes the present administration
and Congress will be brave
enough to make the necessaiy
budget cuts.
He said the current debate over
cuts in federal spending is a classic-
struggle between Democrats, li
berals and socialists on one side
and Republicans and conserva
tives on the other. He said the
definition of a liberal is almost the
same as the definition of a so
cialist.
“If socialists own the means of
production, they control the price
of a product, the price of raw
materials and the whole economic
system,’’ he said. “If this happens,
they control the lives of people
and then we have no freedom.
“That’s the socialists’ system
and the Democrats’ system.”
The U.S. became a great nation
not because of this system but be
cause of the free enterprise sys
tem, he said.
“I’ve been poor, but because of
the free enterprise system I’ve
been fortunate enough to become
rich,” he said. “And I’ll tell you,
rich is better.
“I think we need to preserve the
freedom found in the free enter
prise system for future genera
tions so that they have the chance
to become rich.”
Chiles, whose petroleum ex
ploration company began with
three people in the late 1930s and
now employs 8,000, said the free
enterprise system is not working
because the public sector (the gov
ernment) is using all of the eco
nomy’s money.
“The federal government is get
ting too expensive,” he said.
“Businesses can’t borrow money
to grow and expand because the
public sector is using all of it.
When they can borrow, the in
terest rates are too high for them
to make any profit.”
Chiles said one reason the fed
eral government is spending too
much is because there are 70 mil
lion recipients of federal aid.
“I know we’ve got to have social
security and I know we’ve got to
take care of the poor and disabled,
but $350 billion is too much,” he
said. “We’ve got healthy, virile
men and women who are receiv
ing federal aid and not working. ”
Chiles said the only way to stop
the growing federal government is
to elect people who will go to
Washington and do something ab
out it.
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