There has been some time passed since we posted anything from David Blalock. Below is a correction to that oversight. Dave will be happy to hear from you with regard to this letter. Read at your own risk,

Republican National Committee

310 First Street SE

Washington, DC 20003

Dear Sirs,

Although I have been a supporter of the Republican Party since 1980, I am finding it increasingly difficult to do so.

There are several issues that the current party leaders seem reluctant or unwilling to address. After finally winning the majority, perhaps their fear of losing their position of supremacy in Congress has tainted their understanding of the very reason they were given that position by their constituents. It is important that the Republican members of Congress recall that they are representing the people of the United States, and that entails being responsive to the needs of the public instead of the promises of special interests.

I am now and have always been a conservative. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, that philosophy was more reflected by the Democratic Party than the Republican, but the Vietnam Era and its fallout changed that. The strengthening influence of socialism worldwide has changed the outlook of many countries, making former staunch allies into uncertain partners and altering our own responses to actions by other countries and entities that in earlier times would have certainly been considered so provocative as to precipitate military reprisal. The fiscal conservatism of the late 1940s and 1950s is gone, a victim of the loss of the gold standard, to be replaced with a credit mentality that has given rise to a burgeoning and ever-expanding welfare state whose member numbers swell monthly in response to a dying actual economy. One does not borrow forever without paying a price, and America is paying it in spite of the paper prosperity our administration trumpets. Our internal debt grows exponentially, invisibly, and will someday cause a financial collapse of catastrophic proportions.

The transparency of the socialist agenda of the Democratic Party is the only thing that prevents people like myself from supporting them. In spite of this, I find the continuing lack of intent by the Republican Party for fiscal responsibility, real welfare reform, and tax reform that does more than shuffle the responsibility from one department to another to be most disappointing.

In point of fact, there is now, if there has ever been, very little difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties. The only real difference I can now discern is that the Democratic Party leans more heavily on socialist agenda than the Republican Party, although the Republican support of the Medicare prescription program, among other projects touted as "conservative" by the Party, is enough to make one wonder if there is not some entertainment of a certain Manifesto among the RNC as well.

My concern about the appearance of socialist agenda material in American politics is reflected by many, although they may not understand their concerns by that label. The recent Supreme Court decision on eminent domain, a direct attack on private property rights ("In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property; "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes."(1)); the continued use of a usurious income tax system ("A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."); The continued exercise of the "Death Tax" ("Abolition of all right of inheritance"); the enforcement of public schooling and threat of prohibition of home schooling in certain states, and the use of school curricula to further state-sponsored education programs ("Free education for all children in public schools - Combination of education with industrial production"); creation of a money system dependent on credit manipulated by the Federal Reserve Board ("Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly"); government subsidization of farming and other production ("Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture."); All these are now endemic to our society, some so well-entrenched that many of us are unaware of their origins.

The Republican Party was founded in response to a need to unite a broken Union, to put together again what had been sundered by rebellion and war. Its original purpose, to protect the tenets espoused by the Constitution, has, since then, been lost in the flurry of political dealings that have split our country again in half. Our Party needs reform itself, needs to re-evaluate its own platform and its own commitment to the Constitution.

Find enclosed my hope for improvement within this Party in the form of a monetary contribution. Being unable to stand before the Party leaders and express my opinions personally, this will have to serve as a proxy, poor as it is. I do not expect this letter will be read by anyone above the level of administrative assistant, but perhaps you, that assistant, will be wiser for having read it and will pass these concerns along to your peers. Grass roots change is needed in this Party, as it is the head, not the heart, of the Party that has been turned.

Sincerely,

H. David Blalock

1. Quotations are from "MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY", from the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels

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