AARP's political agenda is not in the best interests of seniors

Union Leader ^ | 8/22/03 | JACK STRAYER

[Consort]

Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson was a big opponent of AARP and many Conservatives were big opponents of Alan Simpson.

[whereasandsoforth]

My wife turned 50 last November. She has been getting stuff from EARP for a year now. I don't know what she does with it all. I turn 50 next June, so I suspect I'll be getting their pitch any day now. They'll be getting a piece of my mind right back. Why can't some group (FR?) start a group for independently minded "seniors"? I would guess it would be very successful.

[snopercod]

One wonders how many people would sign up if the American Nazi Party started offering 50 cent discounts for breakfast at Denny's.

Come to think of it, the AARP platform is not all that different from the Nazi platform.

[OldPossum]

I was a member briefly. Then I discovered their political agenda. Quit.

[JoeSixPack1]

ok, ok, ok, I just cut the card up. I asked about this crap back in March and response was nil!

Live and learn.

[JoeSixPack1]

You have to look at the total picture. Is the damage the AARP does to your freedom and your future worth that small financial savings?

Never had a chance to use it and find out. Done deal. Mailing the pieces back to AARP.

[snopercod]

Good job. Be sure to include a short note explaining that you don't want socialized medicine in America and that's why you are sending their card back.

[hardhead]

AARP is a direct genealogical descendant of the NEA.

[hardhead]

I used to belong but when the cover of their magazine showed two aging parents taking care of their lesbian daughter and her "partner", I cut it in half, wrote to AARP and demanded a refund of the unused portion of my membership - which they sent and I spent.

[ServesURight]

Well I'm only 30, so I don't have to worry about AARP for a while.

[CyberAnt]

You're supporting their cause whether you want to or not. Your money does support their lobbyists, etc.

This is just the same as a union. They take your money, and then they spend it on political activism - without your permission.

I will never send money to people who don't support my views.

[usslsm51]

Bump!

[JesseHousman]

Your #4 is right on target.

When I became 55 I joined AARP and later found them to be phony. Their mutual funds are poor choices, their hospitalization insurance a lousy bargain, their political agenda is un-American and their magazine is leftist propaganda.!

The money saved with their so-called discounts is non-existant. Hotels and motels give AAA a better discount than AARP.

The quicker senior Americans realize that the AARP is just nothing but a socialist-commie front, the better off the nation will be.

Goodbye AARP!

[montag813]

AARP's political agenda is not in the best interests of seniors

NOW they realize this? I thought people got this when they started including tracts from Karl MArx in their magazine.

[headsonpikes]

In twenty years.....

"The AARP, ensuring humane conditions at the Soylent Green plants"

[grania]

Never had a chance to use it and find out. Done deal. Mailing the pieces back to AARP.

Good work, JSP1. How did it feel to take that hideous piece of plastic and annihilate it?

[JoeSixPack1]

How did it feel to take that hideous piece of plastic and annihilate it?

Like voting. :-)

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Agreed. I'm 65 and should be loving them. Recently, I called the area AARP and asked them who they expected to pay for the benefits they want.

The lady couldn't understand my question. She finally said she would put me through to someone to answer my question. I got a recording on the other end.

These people can't think that far.

[snopercod]

Yeah, tell me about their "insurance".

My mother has Alzheimer's, and is in a nursing home in California. For probably 20 years, she paid for AARP long-term care insurance - several hundred per month.

So when she needed it, we kids found that it only covered "reasonable" expenses, meaning about one-third of what it really cost. It didn't kick in until after six months in the home, then ran out after three years.

It was a bad deal. She would have been better off to invest the money she paid in premiums.