This business with AARP is only important to me because Mrs E is ga-ga over this money-grubbing socialist group, and I wouldn't present an AARP card if it were the only discount in town. BUT, where are you getting your information?
The only thing I can find is AARP's loss of 60K members in Aug. 09 - for a group that numbers 40 million, that's chump change. No doubt SOME seniors did their homework and saw Obamacare as the sham that it is, but where did you find that 2 million have left?
5% is still a fairly small number, no matter how you stack it. And does that number of losses factor in with the regular losses due to death and complacency?
I'd like to think that America's seniors are waking up, but I ain't so sure....too many of 'em stay fairly clueless.
American Seniors Association (which we joined) is only one of several conservative seniors groups......during the run-up to ObamaCare, they offered "free" one year memberships to any seniors (65 or older) that mailed in their AARP cards, and pledged not to renew........they received over two million cards. And they are only one of several groups that we looked at, offering similiar benefits, so there are likely seniors that joined other conservative seniors groups as well.....
AARP is open to anyone age fifty or over, so it really isn't a group strictly for seniors, and many join for discounts on travel (tour packages), auto insurance, auto club, hotel discounts, etc. (AARP membership is not required to participate in the United Health Care Medicare plans that are offered under their name) that has nothing to do with senior advocacy. Those are likely the bulk of the alledged forty million.......and since they are really not a group that is interested in seniors, but are in fact a "liberal political advocacy group"......I would expect them to lie.......kinda like the DUmp has 100,000 "members". Similiar claims have been made by the Brady Campaign and MoveOn.org, which have also been refuted opon close scrutiny.
As an example.......my wife joined AARP in 1995 (so we could get a deal on a cruise package), and never renewed her membership since........they STILL carry her as a member, and mail out new cards every year.......just like DU.......their "membership" numbers are very likely bogus.
Further, as a quasi "non-profit" they don''t really have to support their membership claims.
Mrs E is ga-ga over this money-grubbing socialist group,
The above makes you a much more tolerant person than I........I couldn't dream of being married to a liberal........as those that I've met (intentionally very few) possess such a foreign value structure that I simply couldn't tolerate being in the same room with them on an ongoing basis.......not to mention having enough in common to base a relationship.......
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