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:
aarp.orga2003 01 28 contact issuesform.htmlOpen ↗
I have added the URLs at the end for two of the articles appearing in today's media which led me to
send this message:
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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
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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::
washingtonpost.comA38377 2003Nov13.htmlOpen ↗
and also from the following UPI piece:
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.