Revolt is brewing among AARP members against AARP leadership

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Aug 6, 2009

Isn't it strange that someone involved with the AARP felt it necessary to tell you how wrong you were in last week's op ed? Think maybe you got em runnin' scared?

Aug 6, 2009

I will NOT join AARP..they support the libs and therefore think differently than I do...Never will they get a dime from me...I toss all thier mail in the trash unopened....till they can be non politcal in thier issues they will not get a nod from me.

Aug 6, 2009

AARP is a classic example of an organization that has been taken over by liberal activists. This is one of the tools and techniques of leftists all over the world. Members don't even realize that their interests have been subordinated to the liberal agenda.

Many unions have fallen under the same type of leadership. Ronald Reagan matured politically battling liberal attempts to take over the Screen Actor's Guild, so he was very aware of this.

Socialized medicine is not what seniors want, but it is the goal of ultra-liberals everywhere. AARP then becomes just another tool that they will use.

Aug 6, 2009

AARP is a business that masquerades as non profit organization. What AARP does is to MAKE PROFIT from ignorant, uninformed members.
AARP is a scam.

Aug 6, 2009

I send their membership requests back empty so they get stuck for the postage.

Aug 6, 2009

I called AARP and cancelled my membership today. I told them the reason was that by supporting ObamaCare, they had betrayed their membership.

Aug 6, 2009

**.I toss all thier mail in the trash unopened....till they can be non politcal in thier issues they will not get a nod from me.**

No, send it back to them in the postage paid envelope! Infinitely satisfying!

Aug 6, 2009

I have been a loyal member of AARP for several years in succession and several other years intermittantly. I am ashamed for AARP because of allowing officials to have office when they are cornic liars and yellow dog democrats. In the past AARP was really looking out for us and not for political favors and gains. I can see now that renewing my membership was in support of the liberal empire and a bad mistake. SHAME ON AARP FOR ALLOWING THE ORGINAZITION TO BE SOLD OUT SO CHEAPLY.

Aug 6, 2009

I keep the plastic demo membership cards. Trim down the corners on one end, and they make handy shoehorns.

Aug 6, 2009

The AARP supporting this health bill should not surprise anyone. I remind you that some 24 hours before Hillary's 90's health care plan came up for a vote the AARP came our for supporting it although their mnembers were opposed. I was a member then and cancelled my membership. I recall that AARP in Washington was impossible to call and I had to finally call their Chicago office where the lady told me their phone lines were melting from angry members. AARP is a liberal organization that is in no way what its founder visualized.

Aug 6, 2009

Hey the demo membership cards work for me 100% of the time to get the discount rates in hotels. I won't give them a penny either but I may as well take the discount.

Aug 7, 2009

I have just cancelled my membership because of their endorsement of socialized medicine. I encourage everyone else to do the same. But keep your free discount cards!!!

Aug 7, 2009

I didn't renew my membership.

Aug 7, 2009

Hey, circuitmaker, J.J., Rob and others, AARP is a PROFIT making BUSINESS and always has been. AARP looks out for its profit and uses the old suckers to keep its power.

Aug 7, 2009

The AARP has become too political and are failing every which way possible to be a voice for their members.

Aug 7, 2009

I will NOT be renewing my CRAP err AARP membership...I knew they leaned towards the left but nothing like this.What do they, think were all stupid???...

Aug 7, 2009

Liberal AARP keeps wasting their stamps on me. I am like the other poster in that I will never give them not one red cent.

Aug 7, 2009

I belong to these guys because I travel and they get a 10% discount on Hotel rooms, on short notice.

If another organization for us fogies does the same and is LESS political I will change to them, in a heart-beat!

Aug 7, 2009

It was exposed in 2005 that the AARP is actually a front organization for the United Groups of insurance companies. In turn, the United Groups of insurance companies is owned and controled by Pfizer, Inc.. Beginniong to see the pattern of deception these corporations have used to bilk good heart3ed citizens out of their hard earned cash? It angers me daily that folks who work as journalists are more concerned about their paycheck than they are on reporting the TRUTH.
Respectfully submitted,
rthursday

Aug 7, 2009

Don't just mail back the pre-paid envelope empty...fill it with washers! Let'em get stuck with higher postage :-)

Aug 7, 2009

OBAMA FRIGHTENS ME TO DEATH During the
election campaign I thught he was a
gentleman. I thinkvery differently now!

Aug 7, 2009

When mailing the AARP return envelope back to them fill it with finely cut up pieces of junk mail. Stuff it as full as you can. When it is opened it makes a mess in the AARP office.

Aug 7, 2009

I'm 53, and I just recycle their mailings - I won't join them.

Aug 7, 2009

I burned my AARP card last week. Told my wife to burn hers. She would not. AARP is neck deep with our Govcorp.
Ron

Aug 7, 2009

My wife and I quit AARP and demanded refunds. They will refund money. I explained Socialized medicine to them.

Aug 7, 2009

I voted for Obama,
I WAS WRONG, PLEASE FORGIVE ME.....

Aug 7, 2009

well...I have been considering for awhile now of resigning my membership after the pharmacy fiasco...but this recent debacle of Obamacare being forced down our throats and AARP supporting it; I will resign my membership after 12 years...what a waste that membership was...!

Aug 7, 2009

The problem with these idiots running AARP and the current government is that they forget that the boomers are the best and last educated Americans in this country. We tore them down in the 60's and 70's... it's time to do it again!

Aug 7, 2009

I decided not to join AARP after reading ,TRUST BETRAYED INSIDE THE AARP, BY Dale Van Atta,published in 1998. This group is not what founder Ethel Percy Andrus envisioned.

Aug 8, 2009

I remember for their coverage of the 2000 election they had Arianna Huffington and Al Franken, for the right and left sides, respectively. This was before she was known as a lib, but come on! Talk about fair and balanced!

Aug 8, 2009

Forget AARP...cancel your membership and join AAA Auto Club...you get the same hotel discounts and they don't try to determine your political affiliation.

Aug 8, 2009

AARP has been a scam since it's inception. It has never been an advocacy group for seniors. It was founded to sell insurance to seniors, and that remains it's main purpose. Liberal or conservative, joining is a bad idea.

Aug 8, 2009

AARP,just another scam,like churches,insurance,Education,charities,Banks,wall street,casinos.

Aug 8, 2009

The AARP is just another insurance company.

Aug 8, 2009

AARP is not a membership-run group. It is owned by a corporation, and you not really a member, but a subscriber. They use your clout to get their way in Washington for their big corporate owners.

A scam by any definition.

The whole thing is a marketer's dream.

Aug 9, 2009

Does anyone know of a more conservative or non political alternative? Please advise. I have always been anti AARP.

Aug 9, 2009

AARP is on a political mission to the detriment of its members. I want nothing more to do with this organization. It might as well register as a lobbyist for the Obama care plan.

Aug 9, 2009

Do all of you not accept Medicare benefits and social security? Because you receive everything you put in plus interest in the first 2 1/2 years of retirement, after that YOU are reaping the benefits of socialized medicine, and liberal politics.

Aug 9, 2009

I believe AARP is the largest and most influential lobbying group in the shameless city of Washington, D.C.

And to "Are you nuts": I don't collect anything from anyone except the remains of my paycheck every week. And I will gladly volunteer to reject Social Security and Medicare benefits when my time comes in a few years. This country is over $40 trillion in debt and these two expenditures are responsible for most of that debt. I love keeping active and working. Liberal politics is like a swarm of locusts - eventually consuming everything in it's path. I won't be a part of it.

Aug 9, 2009

I have been a member for years. Tomorrow I am canceling and want my money back! They are not using my money to support the idiots in Washington!! Not one dime!

Aug 9, 2009

I abandoned AARP's Big Pharma & Big Med positions years ago; they're probably going to fan the flames for suicide, involuntary vaccines and drug profiteering. Not worth my time, they're so corrupt.

Aug 9, 2009

About 20 years, the management of the AARP got caught being paid override commissions on every Colonial Pen policies sold to the members.
I knew then these guys were thieves...nothing has changed.

Management of the AARP is left wing, greedy and only intersted in screwing members.

Aug 9, 2009

With the democrats everything is political and therefore open to infiltration. Any club, association or organization is fair game, in the hope of enlisting the membership and more importantly its leadership into the cause. As unfortunate as it is, the ideology won't allow the politics to remain at arms -length, everything has to be converted to the cause.

Aug 10, 2009

I'm also leaving CAARP.....Communist Association of American Retired People......so: how do we start our own moderate organization?

This is great way to further expose the CAARP for what it is and, in the process, organize our own group....

Help, anyone?

Steve

Aug 10, 2009

AARP is as far right wing as Nancy Pelosi, Show your National Support against this Right wing political powerhouse by ripping up your member cards and getting your parents and Grandparents to also Drop AARP!

Aug 10, 2009

I called AARP today and cancelled my membership. I'm almost ashamed to say that it took me 21 years to reach this point. When they asked the reason, I told them ObamaCare. They didn't seem surprised so they must be losing members left and right.

Aug 10, 2009

I wouldn't join AARP for any reason in the world. I have been tracking them for years and they are as socialist as it gets. I'm 63 and I don't need another form of big brother telling me what to think! The politicians have stirred up the wrong group of people. It was the boomers and took down the status quo in the 60's and 70's. I guess they need to see what a force we are when they start calling us nazi's, brown shirts, and unAmericans. It's the government and the socialists taking over this country (Obama, et. al.) that you will find are the true facists. Just wait and see... in fact you don't even have to wait, turn on Chris Matthews as he spews his hatred for the American public, or any left-leaning media outlet. We have been suckered folks, it's time to take back our country now! FIRE THEM ALL IMMEDIATELY!

Aug 11, 2009

IF:AARP is NON-Profit
THEN: HOW can they afford the ENORMOUS BULK MAILINGS that clog up my POBox?
SO: I will be mailing them my junk-mail and printed material from alternative news groups in the return envelopes.
MY ADVICE: GET OUT! B4 they go bankrupt and give out YOUR MONEY as "BONUSES".

Aug 11, 2009

GOOGLE: "VaccineNation" a video by Dr Gary Null....also view his seminar:
"Free Gary Null Speech".
Obama's Nazis don't need gas chambers...they are using the drug companies to kill us, immobilize us.

Aug 11, 2009

"Non-profit" AARP will be that when large groups of Seniors die earlier because they were denied service under Obamacare

Aug 12, 2009

I personally had everyone in my family rip up their AARP card and mail it back to AARP. No one would even pay for the stamp so they all ended up in the garbage. The seniors have spoken. AARP will slowly be dismantled as an internal struggle brews. They messed up bad, so bad that they can't fix this. It's like cheating on your wife. You can't undo that. This shows that AARP was never as sincere as we thought them to be. I would like to tell everyone to pray for the execs at AARP for their mistakes, but we need all the prayers we can get for our seniors if this universal health care goes through. Save your prayers for the ones who truly need it. Whatever religion you may be. I'm only 27 years old. I care about my seniors, unlike these young execs pushing pencils and making policies from the marble bathroom stall on their $500 blackberry's. WAKE UP AMERICA, WE FIGHT NOW, OR WE DON'T FIGHT AT ALL. WE MUST FIGHT WHILE WE STILL CAN.

Aug 13, 2009

I cancelled my membership and the rep said, "I assume this is because of the health reform bill". I assured her that it was. She said about 90% of her calls were cancellations and that customer service was putting in lots of overtime. Wish they would release the number of members they have lost in the last 3 weeks.

Aug 13, 2009

Just cancelled my membership to AARP and feel so good about it. They are apparently a political lobby for the democrat party and not for senior adults. Their recent tv commercial involving an ambulance and disruptive automobile drivers make all of us opposed to this government healthcare bill look like delinquents. I have read portions of the bill and know that frightening possibilities are incorporated in this legislation!

Aug 14, 2009

There is a similar, conservative alternate organization run by Art Linkletter called USA next.Would be great if this could build to the prominence the AARP has. This is certainly needed.

Aug 14, 2009

According to Devvy Kidd, Part 1 is already passed. It was added to the stimulus package at the last minute, the 300 pages added to the 1000 pages, and voted on at 3:00am. We dropped out of AARP a long time ago, when we realized how liberal it was. Berlene

Aug 14, 2009

Some of the AARP members are acting stupidly when they allow the Republicans to pull the wool over their eyes. Its all about undermining Obama. What ever does.

Aug 14, 2009

How amazing and cinical it is to see so many mindless AARP members BAILING out becaue of the Republican SCARE tactics.SHAME SHAME on you all.

Aug 14, 2009

After reading some of this "GARBAGE" posted on this panel,it makes you wonder maybe that some of these people must be fresh out of a cave somewhere.What a SORRY SORRY bunch.

Aug 16, 2009

This is not so much a policy discussion on health care reform, as it is a discussion of AARP's co-opted leadership. If the AARP spends an incredible amount thwarting their members' strong feelings against health care reform, shame on them. Even if the members were wrong, they should stand to answer for their betrayal of the feelings of the members.
This seems to be a pattern -- time to pull the plug!

Aug 17, 2009

yOU CAN GET BETTER DISCOUNTS WITH
aaa. THIS LEFT WING OUTFIT HAS RECEIVED IT'S LAST DIME FROM ME.

Aug 17, 2009

FOR ARE YOU NUTS--MEDICARE IS MORE LIKE A MEDICAL ANNUITY SINCE WE HAVE PAID PREMIUMS FOR 35 YEARS. I DON'T THINK THAT IS SOCIALIZED MEDACINE. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO PAY AN INSURANCE PREMIUM FOR 35 YEARS AND THEN BE TOLD YOU ARE GETTING A POLICY WORTH 20% OF WHAT YOU WERE TOLD AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE.IF EXISTING MEDICARE IS CHANGED, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE.

Aug 17, 2009

I suppose some of you may owe Obama a thank-you for opening your eyes about AARP. Seems many of us caught on years ago that it was not an advocacy group for old folks but a for-profit business. And that silly magazine -- my god!

Aug 17, 2009

I, too, will send all return mail with postage-paid so that the AARP will pay the postage. I have told them how I feel and get a "form letter" response. They can keep the few liberal members they will have left. I for one will have nothing to do with this liberal organization.

Aug 19, 2009

I am looking for the name of conservative senior citizens organizations that provide some of the benefits of AARP without the membership in GOVCORP as someone described it.

Aug 19, 2009

Very happy to see the elderly have finally staring to get the message. I am 65 and have always refused to join AARP. This organization has been Left wing right from the start.If we allow Obamacare to happen, your signing your own death certificate. All of us 40,000,000 strong can stop this socializm.

Aug 19, 2009

AARP is making an honest attempt to educate and inlighten some of these idiots. They just don't get it.Name any other orgnization that has made the effort to provide information and knowledge to seniors as well as AARP.If you have that INFO spread it around. If not, silence would your best option.

Aug 19, 2009

For the life of some of the AARP BASHERS, why don't you start a orginization that offers more or superior BENIFITS AND SERVICE than AARP.

Aug 25, 2009

AARP INSURANCE CO. NOT A LOBBIST FOR SENIORS. LIKE ALL INSURANCE CO. THERE POCKETS GET FILLED FIRST. WATCH OUT FOR BILLING PRACTICE MAY BE DOUBLE BILLING ON RENEWAL CARDS BY SEND SEVERAL BILLINGS CONFUSING TO SENIORS OR ANY ONE.

Sep 2, 2009

aarp does NOT represent my views on ANYTHING

Sep 21, 2009

If they're not liberals, why is the biggest liberal Bruce on the cover of the new issue of aarp magazine...I'm sure he's all for anything OB wants...no matter what it is...go blindly my friend..I'll keep the discount cards

Sep 27, 2009

Is it possible for AARP members to file a joint action suite against AARP for not representing the membership as it claims is its mission?

Oct 13, 2009

AARP is a non profit organization and their so called leaders should not be profiting from obamacare, demand the government prosecute aarp leaders who are cheating seniors to line their own pockets.

Nov 4, 2009

I cannot believe AARP is endorsing health care even before they understand what is in it. We need reform, but we don't need government run health care. The public option will ruin our options for real health choices. They say illegals won't be covered, but they don't say that hospitals cannot turn them away. Who do they think pays for what is given away free?
I am dropping my membership. The only way associations understand what their members think is to write a note explaining why you are dropping your membership. Burning your card does nothing because they don't know why you did it. It is time for an association that truly represents seniors.

Nov 4, 2009

Henry........you are a fool if you think socialized medicine favors seniors. In every country that adopted socialized medicine, seniors lost services every time funding issues occured. In England, you can't get open-heart surgery, or even a stint after age 59......they consider it part of the death process. This health bill contains a formula using age, cost,etc., to determine if treatment can be approved. If it exceeds the established ceiling, the doctor will be fined if he provides the treatment. Part of the funding for this bill will come from a 500B cut in Medicare....that should tell you something. This bill will put seniors on a slab of ice and float them out to sea when they require expensive treatment. This bill favors dead-beats, not seniors.

Nov 4, 2009

Henry...you are a typical liberal. You never discuss the issues, you just call everyone stupid that doesn't agree with your socialist leadership. When a person calls others stupid, it usually means they don't understand the issues at hand. They just blindly follow the liberal agenda. I'll think for myself, thank you.

Nov 5, 2009

Just now cancelled my "membership" in AARP - anybody siding with Nancy Pelosi is my political opposite, and I won't help them by renewing.

Nov 5, 2009

AAPR is in league with ACORN's buddy SEIU, it will pay the price for getting in bed with vipers.

Nov 5, 2009

The democrats got smeared in Va and NJ this week, but they still won't listen to the people reference health care because they feel that they know what's best for you better than you do. Pelosi plans to call for a vote on health care this weekend...what a moron!!! All social programs are designed to reward the irresponsible while penalizing the responsible. For example, if the AVERAGE American could put the same amount into an IRA as they pay into social security, they would be a millionaire at 65 in lieu of receiving 1K/mo....cat food money. Wake up America before Obama changes this country from the USA to the USSA. They just don't get it....that's why democrats are known for pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory.

Nov 7, 2009

This is what I wrote to AARP
I'm 42 and writing this to let you know because you have endorsed Obama's / Democrats Health care Bill That I will not join your Organization when I become of Age to join .

I will be joining your Competing Senior Citizen organization that has not Endorsed Obama's Health care Bill . I heard about this Organization on Rush Limbaugh's Radio Show on Friday, along with about 20 million other listeners ;) and if I had an AARP membership card I too would be cutting it in half and mailing it to you .

I suggest you reconsider publically your endorsement of Obama's Health care bill or you will reap the benefits of a continual membership revolt that will keep on giving like you've never experienced .

HOWS THAT HOPE & CHANGE WORKING OUT FOR YOU NOW ? :)

Nov 9, 2009

I will also be cancelling my AARP mebership and demand a refund. It is clear that AARP is not representing the members on ObamaCare.
I predict AARP will lose over 80% of their members and I hope they close down. Then all those management people that said AARP endorses ObamaCare will join the unemplyed

Nov 11, 2009

On November 1, 2009, I turned 62. On November 8, 2009, I cancelled my AARP membership.

Dec 2, 2009

My wife and I are both canceling our memberships. We cannot sit back and watch this organization stab us in the back. They do not listen to the people any better than Obama or Congress does and treats us the same way, they feel they know what's better for you than you do.

Dec 2, 2009

You have to wonder if AARP doesn't want it to fail and close up...you wonder if the funds have been going into the wrong pockets. If we knew the real cash that AARP takes in, we would ask why it hasn't gone to help the AARP members. Just look at the money they make off of AARP insurance, unbelieveable.

I am convience there is more then meets the eye...I wonder what the CEO is doing with all the money he is taking under the table.

I cancelled my membership a month ago. I was feed up in getting nothing out of membership except a magazine that told us how great AARP is supposely.

Dec 5, 2009

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Jan 5, 2010

Does anyone have the name of any organizations for Senior Adults as alternative to AARP? An organization contacted me but I lost the name and would like to contact them, as I am no longer interested in AARP membership.

Jan 5, 2010

I am 79 years old and never have been a member of AARP because I knew their leftie politics and I guess I was right.
Somehow I feel I know what is right for mme better than AARP does, but socialist thinking is quite different.

Jan 7, 2010

Joined at age 50, quit them at age 70...end of story.

Jan 7, 2010

By the way, an alternative organization would be "60 Plus." No politico goons over there...at least I don't think so.

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