alt.politics.republicans

Scruffy McScruffovitch wrote:
> In News 46bf28ab$0$8919$4c368faf@ ,, Patriot Games at
> Patriot@ , typed this:
>
>> "Jack" wrote in message
>> news: $ @ ...
>
>>> and cut off Social Security payments to individuals with a net worth
>>> over $250,000 dollars exclusive of primary residence and/or a net
>>> income of over $50,000 a year, or something along those lines.
>> Those people PAID MORE into Social Security. If you want to cut them
>> off then you must also relieve them of PAYING INTO IT.
>
> I don't often do this, but I have to agree with Patriot Games on this one.
> I paid into the system, I should get the promised benifits. If you want to
> be able to cut people off of the system, then you should provide an opt out
> of paying into the system. I could certainly have made more money adding
> the Social Security Taxes to my private investment funds over the years that
> I worked.

Okay

What about cutting off expensive life-sustaining, medicare-funded
procedures for people over 70?

And raising taxes back to pre-Bush levels?

We have to be realistic about funding this war. The Chinese are not
going to carry our notes and bonds forever. Sooner or later they are
going to want to turn them into hard assets... like US real estate.