Posted on 06/08/2015 1:18:58 PM PDT by Rona Badger
Why are people still joining AARP? Their name has crept into our national vocabulary. This is no accident. It baffles the mind how their massive propaganda machine has brainwashed America’s senior masses (eligibility age now dropped to 50!) into forking over their hard earned—and retirement—money to one of America’s biggest public “charities” whose primary beneficiaries are themselves.
We plan to peel back as many of these layers of disguise as we possibly can. Our intent is to expose a skillful scheme which is decades old and stronger than ever today.
AARP is a sophisticated organization with billions in total assets. They’re also a top lobbying group in Washington. AARP spends more than $200 million a year on advertising and promotion to keep their grasp on the throats of the public.
Congress has tried to blow their scheme open for years. In March 2011 a lengthy investigative report, “Behind the Veil: The AARP American Doesn’t Know”, was published by Representatives Wally Herger (R-CA) and Dave Reicher (R-WA), who were seeking to address a range of improprieties that appeared to conflict with AARP’s tax-exempt status.
The document digs deep into the workings of the AARP that have since become only more confounding. Their efforts turned into political chaos on the House floor a month later, where the argument about the authorship of the report—not its content—became a political football. When that died down, a debate ensued, with vacuous answers provided by AARP.
As a follow-up to the hearing, in December 2011, The House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS for an investigation into AARP’s royalty free relationships with several businesses. We have not been able to find the outcome of the IRS investigation, if there even was one. A call to Dave Reichert’s office has gone unanswered.
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“Lately, I’ve cut up the letter and little plastic ID card and returned it to them via their postage paid envelopes.”
Brilliant! I hope this goes viral!
AMAC interested me right up to when I clicked on their “plan” for Social Security where my year group would be the first one to be fully hosed with the advance of the full retirement age to 69. Most plans I’ve seen at least exempt those over 55 but not theirs. My year group would also be hosed on the early retirement age.
Any time I receive an AARP mailing, it goes into the shredder never to be seen again.
I don’t read them first either.
Best idea I have heard all day!
I’ve been getting their junk mail since I was 22... still not close to the age to join. but I do my part by allowing them to waste their money on the mailings so I can use them for fire starter.
If there is no prepaid postage, place a $.03 center on the envelope.
Or...if you still have any, slap on an S&H green stamp...
Hang in there, they will be back with the prepaid envelopes. They stop for a couple of mailings and their response rate plunges so they start sending out the prepaid envelopes again. I try to stuff them with other solicitations so that they are 6 or 7 oz. and about 1/4 to 3/8 inch thick.
I was recruited at age 41, right after retiring from the Army. Still haven't joined!
The author thinks this is a new thing? It was 50 when I turned 50, 20 years ago and probably long before that.
If you join aarp, do they quit soliciting you to join?
I bought new Beltone hearing aids about two years ago, immediately and ever since, they have been sending me mailings, trying to get me to come in for a free exam and to purchase hearing aids from them.
“I bought new Beltone hearing aids about two years ago, immediately and ever since, they have been sending me mailings, trying to get me to come in for a free exam and to purchase hearing aids from them.”
I went for one of their free exams. I couldn’t hear any of the tones because my Tinnitus was louder than their machine tones. They admitted they couldn’t really help me, but I’m on their mailing list, and they never stop!
They pretty much gave up on me. I may get something from them once or twice a year. I don’t bother to open the material, right on to the recycling pile.
When I turned 50 I started getting their mailings. Put a note to stop mailing me and mailed it back to them in their postage paid envelope. Only good thing about them is they stopped when asked.
I was at a high school friend's house for a visit back in 2006. On his coffee table was AARP's magazine with their 2006 Man of the Year awardee prominently displayed on the cover, Harry Belafonte. I asked him if he was a member and he said yes. Then I asked him why a senior advocacy group like AARP would pick a self-avowed communist and vocal anti-American as their hero. He had no answer. I told him that AARP was not a senior advocacy group but a front for liberal schemes.
But in 2010 when ObamaCare was being debated and passed, he called me on the phone and said he finally realized what I had told him was correct. When AARP supported the ACA, which would rob a $500 billion from Medicare to make ObamaCare pencil out, AARP was all in. Why? The legislation both killed competition that the AARP had with the Medicare Advantage programs, and it boosted the number of people who needed the Medigap insurance. This has enriched AARP's pockets at the expense of the seniors it pretends to represent. My friend saw the light and dropped his membership.
Even John Boehner has publicly said that AARP is one of the most liberal organizations in Washington DC. Many seniors are clueless about these facts.
I have the AARP medicare supplement coverage. I recently had an abdominal aortic annurism repaired....they cut me from breastbone to the nether regions....huge incision.5 days in the hospital in Indianapolis....total cost to me ..-0- dollars....I like them.
Childish old person behavior....if you don't read it, how do you know whether or not they have done something that you approve of..
How proud you must be to steal from an American business enterprise....
You sell your soul lightly.
AARP is a nonprofit organization.
It supports the advancement of liberalism/socialism/fascism.
How proud you must be to be supporting that.
They look to be wanting to make socialized security even more socialized. They want to redistribute even more money from those that work the hardest to those that earn the least.
IMO socialized security already does too much of that.
My hubby is 50 - if he works till 67, he’ll pay in close to $150,000 - his portion alone! Double that for his total contribution, including his employer’s portion. If he lives to 83, the average age for males, he’ll get a whopping $40,000 back for that extra $300k SS gets from him.
Our solution- quit work. We have enough saved and will work at part-time businesses we enjoy. We’ll have less stolen from us through SS and other income taxes, and can out up to $22.5k into 401ks to avoid confiscatory taxation.
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