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Ron Paul recently wrote an excellent opinion letter for CNN. He starts his opinion letter by asking “whose to blame for the downfall of the Republican Party?” The problem with the Republican party is that over the past eight years they’ve abandoned the core Republican principle of shrinking the size of government, and instead, have vastly increased the size of government. Traditionally, the goal of the Republican party has been to shrink the size of government and limit spending. However, we’ve seen the national debt grow from $5.5 trillion in 2000 to over $10 trillion in 2008.

America then elected Barack Obama because he brought “change.” But what change? Change is just a cliche. If the change Barack Obama is talking about is drastically increasing the size of government, then I guess you can say that Obama is for change. However, that’s been the problem with government over the last eight years, not the solution.

Stop and ask yourself, what has gotten us into this mess in the first place? The answer is drastic amounts of government spending. The next question is how do we fix it? And Obama’s answer is more government spending.

I certainly recognize that certain problems require government intervention. As unemployment approaches 10%, the government has an obligation to get Americans back to work. In some situations, you cannot simply throw your hands up in the air and say let the free market work itself out. Some problems are just too big for that. My concern is over the slippery slope that bigger government lends itself to. The more dependent we are on the government to solve our problems, the more powerful the government becomes. What starts with a socialized U.S. car industry and socialized health care leads to socialized gas and socialized groceries. That’s my concern.

Rob Paul closed with this message, “The march toward a dictatorial powerful state is now in double time. All those who care — and especially those who understand the stakes involved — have an ominous responsibility to energetically get involved in the battle of survival for a free and prosperous America.”

Ron Paul concludes that America has lost confidence in the Republican party and it will be nearly impossible to regain credibility. Ron Paul states that it will take a new crop of leaders to regain the credibility needed to redirect the Party. Maybe one day I can be that leader.