I agree with you. I don't think it does any good to talk to AARP members, though. I read my dad the riot act about being a member of AARP the other day (as is my wont) and he reacted more fiercely than he ever has in the past. This is the email he sent me:
All good points. Do something about it, get involved and help your generation. Personally, I can stay in one, nice hotel room for one night and more than recover the cost of belonging to the old-timer's club for a year. How can you fight it, son?
Yes, it's an issue but only one of many. Your Mother and I will be out of work soon because, for reasons I can't understand, politicians of both parties are allowing this country to lose it's identity. They're allowing our once industrial base and what was once industrial dominance to go to third-world or emerging countries. God forbid, if we should ever be faced with a nation-wide challenge as was forced on us that Decenber in 1941, there is no longer a place for Rosie to go rivet!
Just a perspective: My company just past three years without a lost time accident. Of the 139 Federal-Mogul plants World-Wide, we have the best Quality record, we have had the lowest scrap as well as the lowest ppm of all but one of those 139 plants. We have visitors in our plant, weekly, to review and take to their plants our 6S, 6-Sigma, TPM, Lean Manufacturing initiatives and so on an so on because we're known as, no shit, "the show place of Federal -Mogul!" Oh, did I mention our machinery is going to Mexico and China? Remember the "x" in Mexico is pronounced like a "h."
Remember how your Mother and I would correct your English? Suggestion. Learn to speak Spanish. I don't know, I'm just past the point of really caring any more. If the two Johns had won the election? OK, the people that voted for them deserve what the get but, truly? I'm bitter, they are all the same and see both parties having an agenda that suits their platform. AARP? Turn 50 and join. You'll save money and our government will be the same with our without them.