Posted on 08/07/2009 6:08:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure
Discourse: At a town hall last week in Dallas, an elderly "mob" with "manufactured" outrage questioned AARP's support for nationalized health care, asking: "Do you work for us or do we work for you?"
But they were mad as hell at the perception that AARP was selling them out in the name of government-run medical insurance. That perception was not helped when the AARP town hall on the subject was shut down by the seniors outfit once the members dared to ask questions. The AARP representatives did not want to hear from the members at all. Just send in your dues, granny, and be quiet.
AARP denies being in league with the administration in pushing its medical insurance agenda. But as Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor for the Washington Examiner reports, that claim may be bogus despite a statement by AARP CEO Barry Rand in the July 31 issue that "AARP has not endorsed any of the bills currently being debated in Congress."
On Monday, Connie Hair of Human Events reported on a memo from Pelosi in which the speaker described the Democrats' plan to "partner" with AARP as part of a planned August recess PR blitz for government expansion of medical insurance. The fiasco in Dallas was an example of that partnership.
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Damn, I thought I was going to be the first to come up with the best solution.
I always shred the documents they sent, fill their SASE with the shreddings, then mail it back to them on their dime.
No way. Why would I even want to discuss anything with them?
I used to belong - as with many, for the discounts (and they are GOOD if you're traveling), but I sh*tcanned 'em years ago.....but I keep the card in my wallet.
If anybody even asks to see it when I inquire -- which is exceedingly rare -- I flash the long expired card and still get the goods. Ain't been busted yet.
But much worse,they are anti-gun.
Their directors dream of everyone buying only AARP endorsed products.
You know, until now, I knew what they were, but I just tossed their crap in the trash can. But to actually abuse us, not just use us, I may take up your return mail practice. Takes a little more time, but not much. :)
Did you ever wonder how they got your name and address in the first place, and knew not to send you mail when you were 16 years old?
That's what I do....let them pay the postage and take the time to open it
AARP are follwong the ACORN business model of getting a free billion dollar congress contract to run healthcare in violation of church and state.
It is obvious they are getting paid by a mobish kind of people of which the AARP has joined through such business models proposed by Marxists and all sorts of criminalizing misfits like the Nazies and what not.
They didn’t send any to you when you were 16??? I’ve been getting their CRAP since I Graduated from H.S.
http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Junk-Mail-by-Sending-it-Back
and it causes you to smile knowing you’re irritating them when they open it and making them pay for it.
Hehe. Maybe you had a beard and moustache back then. Read the latest almanac, though, and AARP ranks far and away above every publication when it comes to circulation numbers.
Hmm, I could put something that is really heavy; like a brick in a package, glue the envelope on the outside. That would really cost them postage, wouldn’t it?
Sounds like a winner.
Fill the reply envelope with all your other junk mail without your address. Make it as heavy as possible to make it cost them as much as possible.
Here’s a video of the Dallas AARP “Town Hall”.
http://dallas.conservativemuse.com/2009/08/07/even-aarp-members-object-to-obamacare/
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