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Seniors abandoning AARP for conservative counterpart
The Macon County Conservative Examiner ^ | 12-20-09 | Robert Moon

Posted on 12/20/2009 5:36:59 PM PST by aquapub

Apparently feeling betrayed by the AARP's relentless cheer-leading for ObamaCare, seniors are voting with their feet--and their wallets. More than 150,000 people have canceled their memberships since July.

The group dismisses the losses and claims to be gaining even more members and membership renewals. But as I noted earlier today, only 16% of seniors think they will be better off with ObamaCare. This makes the AARP's posturing and questionable math difficult to believe.

Seniors are flocking by the thousands to a group called the American Seniors Association (ASA). It is a conservative version of the AARP that actually represents seniors, rather than selling them down the river for the right price to illegal government health care takeovers.

The group is on the record blasting ObamaCare as an economy-killing war on doctor-patient choice that will fund abortion and cover illegal immigrants. Click here to learn more about the ASA.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aarp; asa; healthcare; obamacare; seniors
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Anyone considering joining should look back into the history of the organization and it’s founding. It won’t put you to sleep ... it will wake you up!


21 posted on 12/20/2009 6:15:47 PM PST by 3D-JOY
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To: aquapub

AARP allows folks to join at something like age 50. I’ve been getting literature from them for nearly a decade.

It will be a cold day in hell, and I’ll be colder than that and six feet under permafrost before I join that group.

If you back the Left in the United States, you won’t see a damned blue blooded cent of mine.


22 posted on 12/20/2009 6:18:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Merry Christmas to all... and to all a good night! (remember the reason for the season))
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To: surrey

Thirty four? Yikes! That’s a new one.


23 posted on 12/20/2009 6:19:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Merry Christmas to all... and to all a good night! (remember the reason for the season))
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To: aquapub

Thank you for letting us know about this organization. I began to loathe AARP what that stupid staff member or consultant walked out rather than answer questions about AARP’s position on the health care bill. We have nothing to do with AARP.


24 posted on 12/20/2009 6:22:04 PM PST by righttackle44
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To: aquapub

AARP’s primary health provider is United Healthcare which is now run by SEIU.


25 posted on 12/20/2009 6:29:39 PM PST by Zathras
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To: LibreOuMort

ping


26 posted on 12/20/2009 6:32:33 PM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: EverOnward

Wifey and I just signed up. Good riddance to Uurp.


27 posted on 12/20/2009 6:36:09 PM PST by TStro
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To: aquapub
The group dismisses the losses and claims to be gaining even more members and membership renewals.

If that's true, it's probably because they've lowered the age to join down to 50, which is younger than I am, and those folks haven't figured out the scam, yet.

28 posted on 12/20/2009 6:37:33 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: aquapub
Seventy-five...never smoked....never voted demoncrat...didn't sign up for social security until I was seventy-one (and, therefore, Medicare) just to stop the nasty letters...never stopped thinking that the only good commie is a dead commie...never stopped working out...and never considered even reading AARP mailings...much less joining...
29 posted on 12/20/2009 6:39:20 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: rockinqsranch

Wrap a brick in brown paper and attach their prepaid envelope to it and mail it back.


30 posted on 12/20/2009 6:44:34 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
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To: Dudoight

I started receiving ‘invites’ from AARP several years ago when I turned 50. I have always torn them up and enclosed a note telling them exactly what I think of their leftist organization. This last time, I sent it back, and demanded that they not contact me again. I haven’t heard from them since!


31 posted on 12/20/2009 6:46:25 PM PST by sneakers
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To: driftdiver

I didn’t think about that but you can bet from now on that is what I will do. aloha


32 posted on 12/20/2009 6:50:06 PM PST by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: sneakers

I just turned 50 and they have been sending me mailings asking me to join. Each mailing includes a postage paid return envelope. I put a tea bag in each envelope when I get it and throw it in the mailbox. I bought tea bags just for this purpose.


33 posted on 12/20/2009 7:42:20 PM PST by Not So Quiet Patriot
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To: fish hawk

Take their postage free envelope, fill it completely full of whatever you want, and drop it in the mail. After doing this a number of times, aarp quit sending me anything.


34 posted on 12/20/2009 8:46:27 PM PST by Rannug ("When you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." JFK)
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To: Aliska
Now for the first time ever, I get an email today join AARP and get a free travel kit.

No thanks.

I get 'em on a weekly basis, and my response is the same...

the infowarrior

35 posted on 12/20/2009 9:11:29 PM PST by infowarrior
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To: Zathras

They are just “partners.”

http://www.aarp.org/aarp/presscenter/pressrelease/articles/dwf_joint_advisory.html


36 posted on 12/20/2009 9:16:17 PM PST by Tucson Jim
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To: samtheman
I too recognized the AARP for what it was years ago -- an insurance company masquerading as a advocacy group!

An advocacy group representing nothing I valued.

37 posted on 12/20/2009 9:51:57 PM PST by grayeagle (Ronald Reagan -- the President of my lifetime.)
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To: Zathras

My Secure Horizons switched to United and now I carry a card with AARP on it. Not a member, but they got their claws in me now.


38 posted on 12/20/2009 10:02:56 PM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: aquapub; All
 
39 posted on 12/21/2009 2:15:03 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: Salvation
Alternatives to AARP — Association of Mature American Citizens http://www.amac.us/ — American Seniors Association http://www.americanseniors.org/ — The 60 Plus Association info@60plus.org

There is also a new organization called Generation America, (generationamerica.org) which says "We focus our efforts on protecting and promoting our individual freedoms so that we can continue living active and fulfilling lives...Join us and become part of an over-50 community united in its defense of individual liberty and freedom."

My tagline has been the same for several years (except the age changes...).

40 posted on 12/21/2009 2:48:33 AM PST by Old_Grouch (62 and AARP-free)
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