Posted on 02/14/2005 12:32:30 AM PST by RWR8189
You proved that Keyes is in favor of reparations for blacks. YOU proved what I said.
The fact that you oppose a tax break proves that you are no conservative.
Let me get this straight:
YOU are in favor of racially-based tax breaks, and I'm not, and I'M the liberal?
To say that letting a citizen keep more of the money they earn is taking anything from someone else is Marxist to the core.
Allowing tax favors based on race is a racial preference.
You are now in favor of racial preferences?
No, I didn't miss your point. I agree with Dr. Keyes that the idea of reparations is bogus. The debt was paid with blood and treasure in the Civil War.
I am sure Dr. Keyes loves his daughter very much. But he isn't going to change his beliefs and principles because his daughter doesn't adhere to them, nor will Dr. Keyes support behavior that he believes is very wrong, by supporting his daughter. If Maya doesn't want to respect and abide by her father's rules while living in her father's house and being supported by her father's earnings, Doctor Keyes is not required to maintain his end of the bargain.
In my humble opinion, Keyes' way of handling the situation is far more honest than the Cheney's. You don't change your own moral beliefs because your children have gone astray.
However, both families are entitled to deal with such problems the way they see fit. Regardless, I still respect both the Cheneys and the Keyes'.
I think you meant your comment for someone else. I just remember seeing her at some events and she was wearing "rainbow" clothing (possibly a matching hat and purse essemble).
I'm going out on a limb here, but it could be that this young lady needed the care and warmth of an everyday father. Could be that Mr. Keyes schedule precluded that.
Oh, roger that. My take is that homosexuality is like eating beets: I really, really find it repugnant, but if you don't force it on me it's none of my darn business whether you do it or not. But if you come to my house and call me an evil person for not being overjoyed at your beet-eating lifestyle, you're going to be flying out the front door, probably with a wedgie to boot.
BTW, thanks for your service. What did you do in the Air Force? I was a KC-135 crew chief.
Best question on the thread; this "news" was out there last summer while he was running -- and while he was trashing Mary Cheney.
You're right, should have gone to 273. Sorry
How do you know she wasn't targeted? Do you deny that she would be an attractive target for people trying discredit Keyes and his conservative message?
Precisely. Yet he had no problem discussing the Cheney family.
If I didn't think you were a liar I'd have to conclude that you can't read. He precisely based tax breaks on ancestral servitude. His plan isn't really reparations it's rectitude.
I can think of other groups who would deserve this too, based on harm inflicted by the government. Descendants of interred Japanese. Descendants of Bonus Marchers and other WWI Vets who were screwed out of their promised war benefits.
But the lamest most liberalized POV that you reveal in your thinking is that a tax break would cost someone else something. Apparently you don't beleive that "W"'s tax breaks stimulate the economy. Or that Reagan's tax breaks stimulated the economy and resulted in the largest fastest increase in revenue in history. Or that JFK's tax breaks stimulated the economy in the '60's. Maybe you're just not a Reagan, Bush, Rush type economy theorist. More of a Kerry/Karl type I think.
I don't know that she wasn't.....do you know that she was.
Are you saying that Jesus Christ advised parents to stop relationships with their children if they disapproved of their behavior?
Bump.
Then why didn't he? He had a live microphone in his hand. He could have informed the world while he was busy talking about Mary Cheney.
LOL!! Call it whatever you want. Keyes played right into the hands of the reparations sharks with his "tax break" idea. How many whites would this tax plan include?
You can put away your derogatory ad hominems, little man. Neither you nor Keyes fooled anybody with this contorted reparations idea. Every single conservative recognized it for what it was and ran away from it as fast as they could.
Tax breaks based on race are racial preferences. Period.
You can smear all the lipstick on it you want.
I agree with his opinion. Don't you?
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