Re: Medicare's Future: Whose Side Is AARP On?

IMHO: All AARP members who oppose the bill and resent AARP's blanket
endorsement without member consent should demand a refund of their
membership dues and a cancellation of membership.

I am an AARP member who does not want to belong to (and support) an
organization that provides endorsements so contrary to member
interests and adds insult to injury, by doing so without first
consulting its members.

What a farce, AARP, who is supposed to represent the interests of
senior citizens, is selling us out -- and then telling us it is for
our own good. 

Well, we know what is good for us. Let's show them  that a group that
sells us out for their own selfish interests does not deserve my (and
your) membership money!  

Sincerely,

M. D. Zig

 
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:18:42 GMT, "Alexander Gross"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Earlier today I sent the following message to AARP (the American Association
>for Retired People).  I urge all of you who may be members of this
>organization to go to their website and leave a similar message at:
>
>http://www.aarp.org/contactaarp/Articles/a2003-01-28-contact-issuesform.html
>
>I have added the URLs at the end for some of the articles appearing
>in todays's media which led me to send this message:
>
>------------------------------
>
>Dear AARP Officers:
>
>I have been reading articles on the Senate-House Medicare debate since early
>in the summer.
>
>Based on the position attributed to AARP in several recent publications,
>that you are inclined to support a version of the bill favoring aspects of
>privatization (contrary to your policy as stated on your site), I want you
>to understand that to the extent that these reports are true, my wife and I
>may find it impossible to continue as members of AARP.
>
>I suspect that many other low- and medium-income AARP members may feel the
>same.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Alex Gross
>
>-----------------
>
>If these reports from today's published press are true, they can only mean
>that AARP has now abandoned its main constituency and membership, namely
>older & retired Americans.
>
>You can judge this issue for yourselves by looking at the following
>articles, first from today's Washington Post::
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38377-2003Nov13.html
>
>and also from the following UPI piece:
>
>http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031112-011330-7210r
>
>Politics may well be the art of the possible, and compromise may also play
>an
>important role in successful politics, but the people being compromised by
>AARP's position are in fact none other than their own members.
>