RESPONSE: Attack was misguided

Was Jeff Bourget really serious in his ridiculous attack in The Press on the United States Citizens Association?

He condemns them for trying to use a different name which an obscure organization already had. This was a simple, honest mistake. It says little about the validity of their position on issues.

Next he condemns them for having support of three of the finest public policy organizations in the country. The Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College are all dedicated to discovering and disseminating the truth, and to restoring and enhancing our freedom.

Their funding is largely from small donations such as my own, which give me more pleasure than buying luxuries would. Contrast this to you "left wingers" who get much of your support from George Soros.

Hillsdale College in its founding documents in 1844 was the first college to prohibit racial discrimination. It has remained consistent. It does not allow its students to accept federal aid, because the government won a court case allowing them to enforce racial discrimination, now called affirmative action.

The Democratic Party backed the Confederacy and afterward fought reconstruction. They set up Jim Crow segregation, backing it clear through the Civil Rights era. They didn't abandon racism when Kennedy decided civil rights were inevitable. Rather, they switched sides and insisted on superior rights for minorities in the form of affirmative action.

Bourget's claim that Reagan was to blame for Carter's Community Reinvestment Act, because he didn't get it repealed when he had a Republican Congress, reminds me of an incident.

One of my friends was ridiculing an eternal pessimist. The friend entered the post office with a long face, so the postmaster asked what was wrong.

"I lost $10,000 last night."

"You did? How in the world?"

"The price of hogs went up and I didn't have any."

JOE W. BLOOMSBURG

Worley