Posted on 12/07/2004 8:28:41 AM PST by CHARLITE
The greedy AARP.
If any more confirmation were needed, we've just received it: The AARP's most fundamental principle is "Get all you can, while you can — young people be damned."
The nation's largest seniors organization has just sent its 36 million members a scorching message opposing private Social Security accounts, raising the prospect of benefit cuts, Wall Street profiteering and mayhem just short of the apocalypse. The blast is prompted by Bush's endorsement of Social Security reform and proposals to allow younger workers to voluntarily divert some of their payroll taxes into a private retirement account.
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Wake up. AARP is the largest lobbying organization in the country. It is far, far to the Left and actively supports socialist causes. Its insurance functions are all carried out by companies that contract with it. The more paid membership it has, the more clout it has with Congress.
A critic recently wrote: Many pressure groups are true "movements of the people", even controversial ones like the pro-life and pro-choice groups, and even the NRA. However, these should be distinguished from "Special Interest Groups". Although they often have wide membership and lots of money, special interests basically exist to press the interests of a few of their members. For example, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) is one of the largest special interest groups in the country, and much of the U.S. population over 55 are members. Most members don't care about the political side of the movement, they join for the discounts and monthly magazine. The AARP is by far the most powerful special interest group in the country. However, the AARP supports things like keeping the retirement age at 65, whereas most of its members support raising the retirement age as a method of keeping social security expenditures down.
and yet the AARP has not said a peep about giving homosexuals survivor benifits at the expense of other benificiaries.
Are you saying that this is being done?
Every time we get paid we see this money coming out of our checks for this forced retirement program, that we could put to so much better use in 401K, or even an interest bearing bank account.
The way I see it, is right now we are paying for a socialist mistake that was born in the past, and should have either never happened or ended a long time ago.
Even a partial privatization isn't good enough for me. I WANT TO KEEP MY MONEY, and have MY OWN retirement choices, or do with MY money as I see fit. I won't be happy until I see this madness stopped completely.
Sounds like Grampa Abe Simpson is the spokesman for AARP.
Jack.
I see them trying to kill off my retirement, and I raise them one - I kill off any more attempts to give them free medical care.
We'll just see who blinks first.
Allow seniors to continue working past retirement age, and if they do continue working, remove them from the SS & MC payroll tax. One rule change would have to be made to allow them to base their future SS income on the quarters they've already earned, so that the quarters they work w/o paying into SS & MC wouldn't count against their future retirement income.
I mean, if they retired instead, they wouldn't be paying into the system, so it's not a loss of income for the system. And it would serve as a great incentive to continue working - a huge take-home pay increase.
Those who continue working would then be in a position to spend more money, thus adding to the economy, and that's a good thing. Plus, their income will generally above the minimum for taxation, so they would be paying federal and state income taxes.
It's a win-win-win situation.
AARP: The next monolithic and monopolistic demographic! It's a monster moving through. Let's hope it doesn't "break the bank." Many of its members and those driving it are the same selfish blue-state libs who couldn't care less about anyone but themselves.
It might pay to shop around. I'm all for saving money, but not at the expense of giving dues to a company that envisions a Socialist States of America.
John Kerry in his campaing position papers stated he supported giving social security suvivor benefits tho the sex partners of homosexuals.
It is not being done. However the homosexuals say this should be part of civil unions.
The AARP has not made any statement about this. This is significant considering the life expectancy of homosexuals.
It was supposed to be stopped as soon as the economy started to improve during the 1930s. Few think about this much, but the worst of the Great Depression had passed by about 1935. At that point, something like Reaganomics could have been used to get us back to normal.The fact that FDR continued to use fear to push his Marxist BS shows that instead of a hero, he was an evil, evil man. And by the way, I do think we were right to fight in WW2 and in fact, we did it too late. Right on the heels of that 1935ish proto Reaganomics, we ought to have gone into WW2 round about 1938, as soon as it became clear that "peace in our time" was a joke. Aleternate history can teach us a lot.
Great idea. I agree.
So are most boomers--ask them.
So are most boomers--ask them.
Think so? Then pass it on.
It is not win-win-win. Boomers will stay in the top slots, demanding the same income, which would otherwise allow for income improvement for Gen X and hiring new workers in Gen Y.
Win-win-win my hiney. It's a win-win-win for boomers and government. It sucks for those of us who follow. I guarantee you one thing. If my generation is taking a hit because of those greedy bastards, I'm making sure they go down with me. Your solution does nothing but help them and hurt Gen X and Y. F that.
I have thrown away everything that comes in the mail from those Socialists.
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