Time for an AARP “Membership” Check-up?
Here we are, well into the 2012 presidential election run-up. And, lo, whom do we find squarely on the cover of the September|October 2011 issue of AARP the Magazine? first Lady “I’m-ashamed-of my-country” Michelle Obama—larger than life, fashionably outfitted and coiffed to appeal, I’m guessing, to Middle America in general and to “Retired Persons” in particular.
Ah, such timing by AARP, they who declare tireless Washington lobbying out of heartfelt concern for retired seniors, but sell out the same by actively supporting the Obama healthcare plan. A conundrum. Before I forget, let me also recall (1) AARP’s ignoring the crushing trillions in debt the Obama “plan” put this and future generations under and (2) AARP’s effectively supporting the legislation that would cut Medicare benefits to “help pay for” that debt, a chimera, which in today’s real world, would financially hurt the now-retiring baby boomers, diminish the quality of their healthcare, which can well expose them to possible but avoidable death—simply because a controlling government bureaucracy determines, “treatment is not appropriate and is ‘not covered by Medicare.’”
So came the first clear sign of AARP’s politically tendentious support of Obama, his agenda, administration, and the Democrat party. It wasn’t enough that we members (customers) suffered AARP’s insult in not polling us first before deciding to support the Obama Healthcare plan for socialized medicine. No wonder the membership defections by the thousands.
But who can blame AARP? Such “support” is to be expected of many businesses whose best interests depend on the actions of the current administration. Did not AARP benefit from the 80-plus millions in federal funds (that’s right, our tax dollars) received in years past? And what of their expectation back then, of becoming a premier vendor under the Obama healthcare plan? It’s no stretch to deduce AARP taps into our membership dollars to pay for its lobbying, print and electronic publishing, and smooth, omnipresent marketing, and certainly into such a huge federal largesse (an arrangement now called “crony Capitalism,” where government rewards select financial favoritism among the private sector for certain political “returns”).
But on the eve of this failing president’s fourth year in office, I certainly don’t have to help pay for this “arrangement,” such as manifest in AARP’s campaigning and shilling for Obama himself and “Obamacare.” It’s not hyperbole: our national survival is at stake, yet AARP effectively supports and abets one of the most adversarial, ineffective, and destructive presidents in history. what tells me so? The increasing daily cost of living; my ever-rising grocery, utilities, and fuel costs; the dizzying, high unemployment rate; virtually below-ground housing starts; historic home foreclosures; catastrophic failures of businesses nationwide; a moribund financial market; a raided U.S. Treasury; endless pallets of printed fiat currency; the rise in costs for medical insurance, care, and medicines; the sheer doubt and angst rampant throughout the nation, ironically taking an awful toll on our national and personal health . . . tell me so.
And here are Barack and Michelle Obama continuing to disingenuously manipulate select segments of American society. with AARP’s help. In the American vernacular, they’re “working the crowd.” The Obamas are no friend of the American “middle class”; no friend of senior Americans; no friend of retired Americans; no friend of AARP members; and, still, during this crucial vote-building period, no friend of the active military and us veterans. The Obamas have known it from the outset, and we millions now know it, notwithstanding this contrived “outreach” program “to help America’s military families.”
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