Excellent follow-up to their gas-filled non-responsive response. Their position is obviously untenable and they know it, so I can imagine they are trying every possible way to obscure and distract from the simple truth that ObamaCare is blatantly against the better interests of their core constituency, and that their support for it is clearly about power and leftism.

Nice question Dave, but you’re being too kind here. Time to take the gloves off, lower your RINO horn at the target and attack. Who know perhaps you might be able to check your RINO horn at the door and earn your trunk back.

It’s as plain as a RINOs horn — The Obamacrats have bought the AARP leadership off with a promise of higher AARP Medicare program revenue at the cost of poorer health care options for their retired membership. The AARP leadership gets the golden parachute, members get the shaft…

but they continue to send me their Emails. They have climbed into bed with Obama and his supporters and are urgingtheir membership to go drink the kool-aid. I may be an old coot but my parents did not raise a fool.

I agree a much stronger attack is needed.
I have also sent numerous emails asking for explanations about their backing of the proposed healthcare debacles, and have gotten the same vanilla, generic answers.
Smoke & mirrors, which is why I resigned & joined ASA.

It is fairly clear what AARP’s position is. You can tell the supporters of Obamacare from those in opposition. The opposition has a principled response. AARP could easily poll their members and then publish their members responses and follow the recommendations of their members in support or opposition of the bill. This would be the principled response for an organization which purports to represent senior citizens and their concerns with Medicare. Clearly this has not been the case as I am a member of AARP. Therefore they do not “represent” seniors in whatever their position is. The movement out of AARP has changed the operating revenue from 23% to a slightly smaller number. I would also ask where any organization which purports to represent seniors gets the remainder of their operating budget. With 23% coming from membership and 38% coming from United Healthcare, that leaves a whopping 39% from other sources. I would be curious where that 39% allegiance goes to. But at the end of the mathematical day, clearly the senior citizens are the least of their concerns.

I dropped AARP back when I found they were behind the doughnut deal in drug coverage. I have paid into Social Security since I was 10 years old. I have paid in to Medicare since it became the law of the land. I HAVE PAID MY FAIR SHARE. The last thing I need is to give one penny to an organization that would support a plan to remove 500 billion from Medicare for seniors, so they can redistribute the money to health care for illegal aliens. And believe me, that is what will happen. The minute Obamacare becomes law, with one stroke of the pen, the illegals will be granted amnesty, and citizenship, and then be given coverage.

So the big question truly is, with their income from members being only 23 percent of the total, and kickback from United Health Care giving up another 38 percent, WHO is behind the rest of the money? I like the idea of e-mailing them for an answer. If everyone were to do this they may just get the message. How about a massive e-mail attack?