New hate campaign against AARP [View All]

[TexasLawyer]

For the crime of objecting to the new Social Security plan, AARP is being branded a liar and people are being asked to e-mail their congressmen asking that they cut AARP off from any government funding.

Looks like the folks at USANext REALLY like Bush's privatization plans. They're certainly demonizing AARP for its efforts to protect the existing SS program

http://www.usanext.org/issues.cfm

Dear (contact name will be automatically filled in here):

I'm outraged to learn that last year the federal government gave almost $1 billion in grants to the AARP since 1988 ($57 million in 2001!), and that this goes on year after year. As a Senior citizen, I'm asking you to use your influence to stop using my tax dollars, via government grants, to fund one of the most liberal, big-government, special-interest groups in America - an organization that supports programs resulting in higher taxes, more bureaucrat-run health care for me and my fellow Seniors, and no reform of our faltering Social Security system.

I will be following this issue closely to see what action you and your fellow members of Congress take to stop this immoral partisan giveaway.

Thank you for your help!


AARP lies, bamboozles, curses grandchildren, kicks puppies and messes with your TV reception...

http://www.usanext.org/full_story.cfm?article_id=96&category_id=3

AARP Curses USA's Grandchildren

AARP fails to recognize that Social Security no longer is a good deal for working people today, the children and grandchildren of its members. Instead, they turn to their old liberal mantra saying "Let Them Be TAXED!"

AARP, the planet's largest "liberal" lobby, now openly opposes President Bush on Social Security. It could be a fatal mistake to fight his efforts to give workers the freedom to choose a better deal.

In a letter to members, the organization flatly opposes allowing workers the freedom to choose to shift some of their Social Security payroll taxes into personal savings and investment accounts that would pay part of their future retirement benefits.

AARP fails to recognize that Social Security no longer is a good deal for working people today, the children and grandchildren of its members. For most of these workers, even if Social Security could somehow pay all its promised benefits, the real rate of return represented by those benefits on taxes paid into the program would be 1 to 1.5 percent or less. For many it would be zero or even negative.

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more excellent anti-AARP articles

http://www.usanext.org/