http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARP
Drop the AARP membership and go here:
Alternative to AARP — Association of Mature American Citizens http://www.amac.us/
I’m happy and proud to never have joined that ridiculous organization. I think their deal with health care is that they think that if older people are afraid of losing benefits, they’ll buy more AARP insurance.
I just turned 55 and there are plenty of diner discounts available for me without having to send money to a bunch of leftists.
SEIU & AARP....FYI
“AARP does not operate a PAC, but its employees gave candidates, committees and parties $53,200, with Democrats receiving 90 percent of that.”
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/02/special-interests-to-listen-ca.html
SEIU & AARP...joined at the hip and helping write amnesty/healthcare legislation.
AARP uses your dollars to fund the likes of:
MALDEF - Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund
AARP says: “”Anybody who looks at immigration has to look at aging,” says Harry R. Moody, director of academic affairs at AARP. “First, immigration affects the age structure of society” by adding younger members to the population, he says. “Second, the people who do hands-on care work are immigrants. Look at our nursing homes! We have an image of people picking tomatoes — that’s not the whole story. Immigrants are the front-line caregivers.”
http://www.maldef.org/truthinimmigration/camarota_asks_how_many_americans09072008/index.html
& http://www.americanpatrol.com/MALDEF/Contributors-2002-2003.html (Fannie Mae gives to them, too!)
AARP also contributes to LULAC
La Raza
http://www.nclr.org/section/awards
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/03/the-left-wing-mortgage-counseling-racket/
And from AARP’s ‘Latino’ magazine....
http://www.aarpsegundajuventud.org/english/presence/index.html
Meet AARP’s New CEO: A. Barry Rand
A. Barry Rand, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Howard University and a nationally recognized agent for social change, has been tapped as AARP’s new chief executive officer. He will become the organization’s first African American CEO when he assumes the position in April.
AARP Welcomes Jacob Lozada
AARP Board member Jacob Lozada gives AARP Segunda Juventud readers his perspective on issues facing U.S. Hispanics and how he hopes to boost AARP’s profile in his native Puerto Rico.
AND AARP works hand in hand with the SEIU. They are the ones formulating the legislation that the dems are pushing.
“– AARP, Business Roundtable and SEIU, which together represent more than 50 million Americans, today took another groundbreaking step for their “Divided We Fail” group by jointly delivering endorsed principles for health information technology (IT) legislation to Congress.
http://www.businessroundtable.org/press_release/aarp_business_roundtable_and_seiu_deliver_endorse
What a joke. Totally Left. Totally political. Anyone who is conservative and belongs to this organization is being taken for a ride. They support the very worst of the liberal politicians.
I have refused to join them.
Time to clean house, AARP members.
Don’t drop out just now, that’s counterproductive. Write letters/emails demanding the change in policy and of the leadership.
I joined a newly formed organization...Patriot Seniors Dedicated to Organizing For the Future...PSD-OFF!
guess that they lose their tax exempt status if someone can report them
This is easy to take down....collect a separate, independent pole of AARP members....if they clearly and decisively DO NOT support the Obama administration, AND AARP leadership has published information revealing them to be in the tank for Obama...they lose their IRS 501C3 non-for -profit status....plus fodder for class action suits by seniors...
I am not an attorney...but I’m sure there are some legal eagles that can flesh this out a bit.
We received an AARP request for membership the other day. I placed a very pointed letter in their self-addressed stamped envelop and mailed it back to them. It makes me feel good knowing I was able to tell them what I think about their organization and they paid for it.