I refused to join.
I’m still getting AARP solicitations three or four times a month. Lately, I’ve cut up the letter and little plastic ID card and returned it to them via their postage paid envelopes.
Join AMAC instead!
AMAC is the conservative alternative!
If you are looking for an organization that offers exceptional benefits and also stands up for the values that have made America great, you’ve come to the right place! Welcome to AMAC – The Association of Mature American Citizens – the fastest growing 50+ organization in America!
I guess the big “Screw You Traitor” I’ve written on their applications and sent back, have failed to topple their company as I had initially planned.
Darn.
AARP sold seniors down the river when they got on board with the ACA. I can’t imagine why any senior would trust them now.
LMAO.
I refused to join too, and talked some friends out of the trap as well.
Any time I receive an AARP mailing, it goes into the shredder never to be seen again.
I don’t read them first either.
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.
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.
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.