Reply #4: I Disagree [View All]

[DPG]

Its time for a senior lobby that is not just a front for selling insurance and etc. I cancelled my AARP membership when I learned they supported what I call the Medicare Destruction Bill. I am encouraging seniors in my area to drop AARP, discouraging anyone from joining AARP, and working to try to evict the AARP from the small rent free office that they have in our city funded senior center.

AARP officials would like seniors to take the soft approach. Protests alone will not matter to them. The money is what will get their attention.

Its not just their support of the Medicare bill that is so offensive. Their new strategy to cater to the younger people also needs careful attention. There was a recent story about that -- about their intention to include people in their 40s. That is just an obvious move toward trying to increase their profit making business.

I think its long past time to drop out of AARP, especially by lower income seniors. For as long as I have paid attention to AARP, they mostly look after the interests of higher income seniors.

It was nice to post the e-mail addresses of the board members. I'm all for contacting them. But my contacts will say that I have jumped ship and don't plan to return.