Posted on 08/31/2009 4:50:19 PM PDT by Scanian
A letter from AARP I received gets right to the point. The first two sentences read:
I will get right to the point. As our leaders seek solutions to the current economic crisis, we need your help to remind them that we can't fix our economy without fixing health care. (The bolding and underlining is theirs.)
The next part of the letter is a dire description of the straits we are in, framing everything in terms of a "crisis." They strongly urge the AARP member to do the following:
1. Sign an enclosed petition to my elected officials (whom they've named, specifically, I suppose for those clueless enough not to know who their elected officials are). The petition urges the elected officials to support health care reform. 2. Then, they hit you up for a contribution (so they can keep their worthless organization churning out misguided guidance to America's older population).
The letter ends with bulleted points outlining all the great benefits of health care reform. It reads like a candy store looks to a child.
Enclosed with the panic stricken letter is a Q&A pamphlet loaded with disinformation.
AARP must be taken to task. Their base is comprised of older Americans, some if not many of whom, are vulnerable to the influence of a Good Housekeeping seal-of-approval organization that essentially tells them what to do.
I'm trying to decide whether to send back the sase:
...with nothing in it.
...with some monopoly money.
...with a long diatribe about the bill.
...with a short and sweet note, no longer than three sentences long that borders on, or crosses over the border, to snide, curt, and rude.
Any thoughts?
You will enjoy it and pass in comfort.
All those I know who belong(ed) to AArp, joined for the Hartford Insurance AUTOMOBILE discount.
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LOL Good One!
Time to demand AARP remove the word “nonpartisan” from their logo.
I got my bi-weekly letter from them today. This time, my SASE was filled with a 3/4”-thick wad of grocery-store ads, wrapped with a clean sheet of paper with a message on it about what I thought of their leftwing advocacies over the past 20 years or so. Told them they’re risking losing all of us silvers if they don’t change their evil ways.
Send it back......SPRAY INSIDE OF ENVELOPE WITH PEPPER SPRAY! They rub their eyes..PRESTO!
Old letter carriers trick, reserved for the worst postal customers........WE JUST SPRAYED THE EXTERIOR, of course. Otherwise I might be in Leavenworth waiting for Barry!
“Told them they’re risking losing all of us silvers if they don’t change their evil ways.”
Why would you ever join that communist organization?
Never did. They've been sending me bait since I turned 50 (just because I had turned 50). That was 12 years ago. I get bait from them every two weeks. I return junk mail in the paid envelope that must amount to about $1.50 postage due. I hate AARP and always have.
I look at it this way: AARP is angling for the admin. job (Which will be worth billions) if obummer's health care fiasco gets approved. IMHO
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