Posted on 08/06/2009 9:26:45 AM PDT by La Lydia
Although, President Barack Obama participated in an AARP Town Hall to promote his health care reform, his appearance was not a success among members of the powerful AARP. Comments posted by AARP members indicate they are far from assured by Obama or his message. Most comments show a continued distrust of Obama's assurances that Medicare will be protected and that health care will be better.
Baby boomers who now hold a great deal of power in the AARP and among voters, just don't want their entitlements smaller. Never mind, that they are the only group of Americans who have what Obama (and "we the people") really wants – universal health care for all Americans. Here is a typical AARP comment,
"I don't care if it is from the democrats or the republicans, the government cannot give us better health care. And more importantly, as soon as we look to government to take care of use we have made a tacit agreement to give the government control over all aspects of our lives. It is like making a deal with the Devil."
The majority of the comments oppose health care reform in the form that Obama has attempted to use, driving down costs by making health care delivery more efficient and giving Americans the option of choosing between private insurers and a government-run plan. The elderly have the same universal health care that is the birthright of people in every developed nation except the United States, and they are doing all that they can to protect their entitlement. Even if it means working to keep that same benefit from other Americans...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
The “Not that s**t again” picture came immediately to mind when I found this!
Getting in the face of one of the country’s most potent voting blocks and calling them “selfish”.....why, yes, I see now why this man is regarded as the most Brilliant Politician of All Time....
Does anyone know why the AARP as an organization is for the ObamaCare plan? It clearly is not good for seniors - I just don’t get it.
This AARP member says: FUBO!!!!!
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Why.....are.....you....a...member? Cancel, call them and tell them why. They have been in bed with the liberals for years.
Dementia - They've been told for so long that libs pissing on their legs is actually rain , they believe it to be true.
That too, but there seems to be such a clear disconnect between tons of members and the management of AARP. Clearly end of life ‘care’ will be rationed and access with be delayed if this monster gets a green light.
Because IBM dropped her and she has Kidney Cancer and AARP covers the 20% Medicare does not cover for only $155 per month......................
They will lose over a 100K this year:-()
Gallup approval ratings for Obama...
Age....Approve
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18-29.....64%
30-49.....53%
50-64.....54%
65+........48%
I recommend an organization called The Foundation for American Christian Education for much needed instruction on how we can begin again to educate our children in liberty, self government, and the morals and ideas of the founding fathers:
http://www.face.net/203287.ihtml
I have just rediscovered this organization (my father-in-law taught at a Principle Approach school in the early 1980s) and am committed to first educating myself, and then applying what I learn to enrich my children's education. We MUST get back to educating our children properly in morals and Biblical logic and reasoning, or each generation will continue to be at risk of losing its liberty.
This organization provides many books and materials for both adult and children's education in these topics. I personally believe every Christian church in America should use some of its funds to provide a library of such books and offer free classes to train parents in how to train their children in these principles and precepts. Another wonderful organization is the National Center for Constitutional Studies http://www.nccs.net/, which publishes The 5000 Year Leap and other great materials.
The History of the Foundation for American Christian Education
When the United States was founded, she stood on the shoulders of centuries of devoted, brave yet ordinary men and women who loved the God of the Bible and understood how to nurture one of His greatest conditional blessings to mankind, liberty. The peace, security, prosperity, integrity, and freedom that has longtime been the hallmark of the United States are all results of her distinctively Christian roots.
This simple yet profound truth was rediscovered by Verna Marie Hall. During the 1930’s, Miss Hall had been working in Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration) distributing benefits in San Francisco: initially a great believer in government entitlements, she witnessed the effect that these programs had on those who received them. The longer an individual received government assistance, the more he adopted a subservient, helpless mindset. Once the transformation was complete, he was unlikely to return to productive independence—Miss Hall realized that the very programs developed to aid the poor were, in fact, enslaving them.
Miss Hall began to research America’s history, and she saw a great chasm between the encroaching socialism of her day and the staunch independence and self-government of America’s early Christian settlers. She found America’s Christian history documented in hundreds of founding charters and state papers, in the personal writings of the early settlers and our founding fathers; she understood that the distinctive American Christian character, the foundation of our liberty and identity as a people, was being threatened. Miss Hall undertook the great charge to remind America of her Christian history in order to motivate Americans to shore up the foundations of liberty, to restore Christian character in the individual. By the 1950’s, Miss Hall was sharing her research in Christian History Study Groups in San Francisco attended by hundreds of ordinary, liberty-loving citizens. She compiled a book of primary sources, entitled The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. I: Christian Self-Government, that documented the history of self-government, its relationship to liberty, and its essential role in the crafting of the United States Constitution. She dedicated her book in the following manner:
This volume and those to follow are dedicated to
the Christian principle upon which this nation is founded,
and to each American of this and succeeding generations,
that he may remember his Christian heritage and live so as to
raise the standard of his Pilgrim and Puritan fathers into its
larger and fuller expression of individual liberty.
This book, first published in 1960, opened the eyes of many Americans.
One such American was Rosalie June Slater, a teacher who had come to her own understanding of the value of Christian self-government studying the contrasting educational system of the USSR. Miss Slater, passionately convicted that the key to preserving America’s future liberty lay in education, wrote a curriculum for teaching Miss Hall’s book. In her own words, “A nation which is humble enough to begin with its children in the constructing of its foundations for liberty may once again have the opportunity to lead nations to Christ.” Together, Miss Hall and Miss Slater established the Foundation for American Christian Education in 1965 to form Christian character in children and published Teaching and Learning: The Principle Approach®.
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Is there such a thing as a conservative AARP type organization?
I hear conservatives are organized now. Maybe Glenn Beck can organize us conservative old folks.
Has anyone seen the Dallas AARP “listening session” on healthcare?? They aren’t listening.
Its the same with history. The idea that the Catholic Church was in league with Hitler is just so wrong its crazy, there were article after article in the media in the late 30’s about the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church.
I started getting membership applications from AARP when I was only 28 years old! (This was years ago).
I had a subscription at the time to “The Wall Street Journal.” Perhaps AARP bought their mailing list, and assumed, mistakenly, that only senior citizens subscribed to the Journal?
I want nothing to do with AARP either. Just another group of crazy lefties.
Democrat Geezers always bought the lies that the Pubbies were going to take all their goodies away......KARMA!
I’m a Boomer and almost ready to retire. But I have been saving and investing for retirement since my 20s.
Baby boomers ... just don't want their entitlements smaller. Never mind, that they are the only group of Americans who have what Obama (and "we the people") really wants – universal health care for all Americans.L. Steven Sieden is on drugs. Medicare parts A and B isn't "universal health care"
An alternate to AARP is the 60 Plus Association. They stand for free enterprise, less government and less taxes for seniors and neither takes nor seeks federal grants.
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