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The Federalist Newsletter | The Federalist Staff

Posted on 11/21/2003 10:50:19 AM PST by FlyLow

As for the AARP endorsement -- "Faustian Bargain" is an understatement. AARP, the former American Association of Retired Persons, was reborn recently as just "AARP" after seeing their future political influence threatened by demographic trends. This huge socialist organization keeps adjusting its membership entry levels downward, and now has 35 million members. Eventually, your social-security number may be replaced with your AARP number at birth. In their "endorsement" of this plan, AARP notes, "It's a good first step." (Ratchet effect to follow.) But if AARP's endorsement doesn't sound your built-in Bloated Government alarm, look who else has endorsed the plan: "The Medicare prescription-drug bill heading for a vote in Congress is worthy of passage," say the editors of the New York Times.

Memo to all RINOs: Mr. James Madison, author of that much-maligned document we call our Constitution, noted, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." Since it's clear that you've now uncovered this mysterious article, kindly cite it for us!


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MY, MY, MY "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." Since it's clear that you've now uncovered this mysterious article, kindly cite it for us!
1 posted on 11/21/2003 10:50:19 AM PST by FlyLow
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To: FlyLow
My wife and I get along fine without having anything to do with these ACLU types. So much alike. I recall well, their kissing Clinton's ass, when they could fit in. To hell with em!!!!!!
2 posted on 11/21/2003 11:10:07 AM PST by Joee
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To: FlyLow
AARP simply lies.

When I hit 50, I got a membership to AARP in the mail, asking me to send them $ 8. I didn't. Every year since I've gotten an automatic renewal. These bastards simply claim everyone over 50 is a "member."

When they went on an anti-gun screed, I wrote to them, ORDERING them to remove my name from their rolls. Recently I got another renewal letter from them.

AARP DOES NOT REPRESENT 50 MILLION PEOPLE. IT LIES.

3 posted on 11/21/2003 11:18:06 AM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice
When I bacame 50 I sent in the $8 so I could get on the mailing list and keep up with their socialistic ideas. I have since, not renewed because I don't want to be counted as one of their "millions of members".
4 posted on 11/21/2003 11:25:32 AM PST by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: phil1750
I received an app when I turned 49. I asked my dad if it was worth it and he said no. Now I have to watch and see if I am a "member" without my consent.
5 posted on 11/21/2003 11:35:11 AM PST by Thebaddog (Woof!)
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To: pabianice
AARP is not a representative of "retired persons" any more than the Farm Bureau is a representative of farmers.
6 posted on 11/21/2003 11:48:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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as the founder of the federalist society chapter at usc law school in 1989, i've got this to say:

err, who's coopting who here?

first, the aarp would only hazard to endorse republicans now because the guy who heads them just in the last two years worked in the nixon administration (i know, a big government republican)

look, i'd love to see whole departments eliminated and programs privatized as much as the next freeper, but republicans even voicing that stuff makes them electorally unviable

can we restore the individualistic character of the USA while guilding the social safety net? i dunno, but conscientious objection isn't a worthy alternative to shaping the inevitable programs in a way that might blunt their socialistic effects
7 posted on 11/21/2003 12:26:25 PM PST by dwills
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To: Thebaddog
I first received a "pre-approved" membership form from them.

At that time I was only 36.

I recently hit 40, and within a week, I receieved another one.

I wrote "CALL ME IN 10 YEARS" and mailed it back to them.
8 posted on 11/21/2003 1:48:39 PM PST by Johnny Gage (If Peanut Butter cookies are made with peanut Butter, what are Girl Scout cookies made with?)
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To: pabianice
"When I hit 50, I got a membership to AARP in the mail, asking me to send them $ 8."

I get them every damn year and I'll never send them anything back but their prepaid envelope with a note that I am not one of the greedy geezers they are looking for.

While their membership should be rising as the Baby Boomers get past 50, it looks like it's falling instead. Maybe there are a lot more people like me out there than I thought. And maybe, just maybe, this is why they are changing their tactics.

9 posted on 11/21/2003 2:07:05 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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