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To: sinkspur
No, I don't.

Really? Try not paying your taxes.

Think bigger than reparations. Does the proposal, not the passage, but the proposal itself, overall advance our agenda? Reparations are against our principles, but by a compromise there, can we make up much more than we lose on this front on other fronts?

My "freedom" (and yours too) will not be determined by this faux issue.

My freedom, and yours, will be determined by whether conservatives or leftists control our gov't. This issue could affect that.

domination of the Republican Party means paying ransom to one race of people, I want no part of that domination.

If the price of getting your own freedom from tax slavery is to give it to another group first, you really wouldn't take that deal? People like you will drive the Republican party to irrelevance.

have it in your head that reparations are a burning issue. It's not. Not here where I live, not where you live, not anywhere. There is simply no chance that reparations will ever come to pass. Period.

I agree that reparations are unlikely. And I'm not convinced it is a good idea to propose. However, I do think it is worth thinking about. Reparations are not a 'burning' issue in the sense that there is an overwhelming pressure for action now. But it is an issue among many blacks where I live. They honestly think they are 'owed' And the reason that reparations is very unlikely to come to pass is because R's oppose it on principle, and D's use it to keep blacks on the plantation. It is not in either party's interests to advance it. Maybe, just maybe, it is worth thinking about how to advance it in such a way that it severely damages the D party use of it without horrendously violating our principles. I think that is what Keyes is up to.

397 posted on 08/17/2004 8:27:20 PM PDT by blanknoone (Everything is impossible to those who refuse to try.)
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To: blanknoone; sinkspur
Reparations are against our principles, but by a compromise there, can we make up much more than we lose on this front on other fronts?

Brilliant maneuver!

We'll cut them off at... our throats!

Yes, that's the ticket! We'll compromise our way to success!

For every demand the left issues, we'll only give them half of what they demand! No, strike that -- we'll only give them a quarter of what they demand!

Why, in no time at all, we'll have them eating right out of our... wallets!

We know this is a winning strategy, because it's gotten us where we are today!

[laugh|cry|vomit|all]

407 posted on 08/17/2004 8:32:49 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: blanknoone
Does the proposal, not the passage, but the proposal itself, overall advance our agenda?

No.

Reparations are against our principles, but by a compromise there, can we make up much more than we lose on this front on other fronts?

To quote Alan Keyes "I don't compromise on my principles."

If the price of getting your own freedom from tax slavery is to give it to another group first, you really wouldn't take that deal?

No. I won't take it. Somebody's got to pay taxes, and if this turkey flies, it'll end up being you and me, the fair-skinned ones.

Maybe, just maybe, it is worth thinking about how to advance it in such a way that it severely damages the D party use of it without horrendously violating our principles. I think that is what Keyes is up to.

I don't want to think about reparations. I want to put a bullet through it's head, and bury it on the ash heap of history.

I really can't believe you'd even consider giving a single inch on something so blatantly racist and anti-conservative as reparations in any form!

411 posted on 08/17/2004 8:33:46 PM PDT by sinkspur ("Is it OK to send watered silk to the dry cleaners"?--Cardinal Fanfani)
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