[alice_in_bubbaland]

Maybe it's just me but, why is the AARP so against reform?? I know it's a liberal group and all that. Their members are 50+ years old and it won't effect them. Can't they see past their noses to understand that our kids and grandchildren stand to loose the most if there is no SS reform?

[MKM1960]

In time this issue will become known as AARP's swan song for a long time most seniors didn't have a clue about what AARP's politics were. I saw the president of the company that Mr. Linkletter is spokesman for they currently have the discounts the access to insurance programs and are preparing a large media buy to let the folks trapped on the AARP plantation, they do have a choice. I'm betting that a lot of people who are senior citizen hippies will be voting with their feet.

[CitizenM]

Maybe it's just me but, why is the AARP so against reform?? I know it's a liberal group and all that. Their members are 50+ years old and it won't effect them

That is EXACTLY the point Linkletter kept renewing during his interview. He said that for the AARP to not back making changes for our children and grandchildren is just plain selfish. (among some other comments he made.)

Evidently he has opposed them for a long time. Reminded the audience that the AARP was started by an insurance company as a scheme to sell insurance

[trebb]

AARP is another socialist bureaucracy that wants to trap people into needing it for personal financial gain.

[WestTexasWend]

AARP is like the NEA. Neither one gives a rip about its members, they're just interested in collecting dues and pushing an agenda.

[rudehost]

"Maybe it's just me but, why is the AARP so against reform"

I'll tell you exactly why. There are transitional costs associated with reform that will push up the deficit short term. If the deficit is higher it is much harder to push threw large new entitlement programs.

The AARP wants to spend the money used to fix social security on themselves with bigger prescription drug benefits and other potential goodies. They are afraid that if we fix social security there will be less money available for them to extract from the pockets of the working population.

Remember that crowds call to "fill the donut hole" on prescription drugs? What they want is to fill their pockets with cash and reform would make that harder.