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AARP Backlash (Bwahahahaha alert!)
CBS News ^

Posted on 08/18/2009 11:55:33 AM PDT by pillut48

Up to 60,000 Americans have canceled their AARP memberships due to anger over the group's position on health care. As Sharyl Attkisson reports, many are switching to a 'conservative alternative.'

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aarp; comesaround; justdesserts; reap; sew
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To: 12Gauge687

Good one!

LMAO


21 posted on 08/18/2009 12:16:44 PM PDT by maggief
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To: pillut48

They also have 35 million total members, 400,000 new members in the past month and 1.5 million membership renewals in the past month....


22 posted on 08/18/2009 12:21:14 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: MichaelP

The article names The American Seniors Association, as the conservative alternative and it’s gaining 60,000 members a month who are quitting the AARP.


23 posted on 08/18/2009 12:24:24 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO - No socialist Bureaucrat on a Death Panel is going to decide whether I live or die!)
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To: pillut48

I have been on the phone twice today trying to cancel my membership but after holding 20 minutes the first time and 15 the second gave up. Will try again later.


24 posted on 08/18/2009 12:30:06 PM PDT by engrpat (A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)
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To: pillut48

I smell another bailout on the way


25 posted on 08/18/2009 12:32:50 PM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: pillut48

So, which is it? The other day AARP swore it was against ObamaCare.


26 posted on 08/18/2009 12:39:22 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: MichaelP

I’m not sure there is one really. My Father was pretty conservative back in the day. However, in his last few years, he was convinced that Bush wanted to take away his social security. He had become a one issue voter.


27 posted on 08/18/2009 12:42:39 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: bgill
In my view, the AARP is worse than Al quida.

They hold politicians hostage when it comes to reforming entitlements.

At least you can shoot Al Quida

28 posted on 08/18/2009 12:45:58 PM PDT by lakertaker (Democratic Party Economic plan: Declare all those who hate higher taxes as unpatriotic)
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To: pillut48

600,000 sounds better...


29 posted on 08/18/2009 12:47:31 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: DGHoodini

American seniors are starting to wake up to the fact that they have been lied to by democrats FOR YEARS!!! Let’s check back in a few weeks and see what the numbers are as more and more info and FACTS about HolyOCare becomes more known!


30 posted on 08/18/2009 1:04:56 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: brownsfan

“Why is it that you people can’t see that we know what’s best for you! I guess it just proves we’re right in treating you like you’re stupid!”


31 posted on 08/18/2009 1:05:53 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: pillut48

You know, this isn’t the first time the Liberal leeches in charge at AARP have used their members money to bankroll and run ads for Lib Pig agenda causes. I seem to remember a rather big one from some five or six years back...can’t quite remember but I remember it got several m,embers steamed about it..and of course AARP didn’t give a damn.


32 posted on 08/18/2009 1:10:00 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: pillut48

A truly remarkable report from CBS. This lib network actually reports the FACTS and does so both well and far more completely than I would have expected. Go figure!


33 posted on 08/18/2009 1:29:39 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: pillut48
Betcha Rand, the CEO of AARP, ends up some time or another in the Obama Administration. They are way too chummy.

sw

34 posted on 08/18/2009 2:45:23 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (Seniors Rule!)
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To: rbg81

It’s not that he is a single issue voter so much as he is under the mistaken belief that the alphabet news is a reliable source of information.
My mother is pretty much the same way. She still thinks Bush (either one, they are pretty much interchangeable in her mind) is (are?) the source of all evil. She is convinced that the Republicans will take her SS away and throw her in the streets. If CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBCCPUSA news says it, she believes it.
She can’t understand why Dan Rather ‘retired’, either.


35 posted on 08/18/2009 2:50:00 PM PDT by magslinger (Inside every father is a Bryan Mills waiting to get out.)
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To: pillut48

When ever I get mail from AARP I rip it up and put it in the postage payed return envelope. It’s fun costing those bastards going and coming. One of these days I’m taping it to a brick and mailing it back.


36 posted on 08/18/2009 11:59:59 PM PDT by Bookie1066 (It's not going to be Atlas Shrugged but Atlas Shot Back.)
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