letter to the AARP

[Brett]

  For what it is worth
 This letter to the AARP says it all.  It is a must read regardless  of your age.  Some people just make sense in what they say.  This  lady certainly does.  Please forward this to everyone on your  contact list.
  This was sent to Mr. Rand who is the Executive Director of AARP
 
  Dear Mr. Rand,
   Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed  membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you  were looking for, but this is the most honest response I can give  you.. Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the real  problem, a deepening lack of faith.
 
  While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years  and have long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we  can no longer endorse it's abdication of our values. Your letter  specifically stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our  rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept  up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents  neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do  believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything  presented to them, one is probably not necessary.. But, when the  opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce  is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of  government.
 
  Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior  demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and  give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our  own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy..  The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama administration and  empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical  insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!
 
  We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the  guiding forces whom we expected to map out our senior years and  leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that  disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not  contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership.  There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without  threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.
 
  This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out of  us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained  heritage,but even more importantly for our children and  grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic  cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never  in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find  myself listening to them. I don't have to agree with them to  appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline  insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the  Socialist mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great  stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I  CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well  as the responsibilities it requires.
 
  Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all  communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? Someone has broken into  our 'house',  invaded our home without our invitation or consent.  The President has insisted we keep the perpetrator in comfort and  learn the perp language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome  to them.
  I DON'T choose to welcome them.
  I DON'T choose to support them.
  I DON'T choose to educate them.
  I DON'T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing.
  American home invaders get arrested.
  Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on  American soil that Americans do not get?
  Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and  others only have to break & enter to be welcomed?
 
  We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great  country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there.  He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all  the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip  yielded only ONE supporter of the current administration.  One of us  is out of touch with mainstream America. Since our poll is conducted  without funding, I have more faith in it than one which is power  driven.
 
  We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and  will encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my  address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential  factor will  make a credible statement to you..
  I am disappointed as hell.
  I am scared as hell.
  I am MAD as hell, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!
 
 Walt & Cyndy Miller
 
 Miller Farms Equine Transport, Cheraw SC 

[Graybeard]

Shows a gross misunderstanding of who/what AARP is and always has been.

It is NOT an organization to help old farts like most seem to think. It really is little more than an insurance company organized to sell to old folks and to pretend to be their friend. It is and always has been: antigun, anti hunting and socialistic.

I've known this since long long before I was old enough to "join up" with them and would not and have not ever considered them.

[buffermop]

AARP is about as useless as a fart in church. Along with other organizations like the North American Hunting Club and Fishing club. Just someone looking for suckers to fatten their wallet and get nothing in return.

[jager]

   I agree "wholeheartly" with your assessment, GB, and did some "fact checking" on my own before I turned down their very first offer to join (many years ago). AARP has certainly "fooled" a lot of "seniors" over the years who were generally more interested in their "discounts" than who they "lobbyed" for
   The letter cited is well written and will maybe "wake-up" some "Fence Ridders" who are "biased" against us "oath takers", but are suddenly becoming aware that this "administrations" values, ambitions, and goals run are "diametrically" opposed to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence"   I'll send it to some of my "Moderate" friends who have enjoyed the "high Road" of "compromse"

[45-70.gov]

i  received  a letter from them      AARP

they said  they  were  fighting  for  me

i let  them  pay the return  postage  and  ask  the question

''who  are  you  fighting?''

i  have done this  in the past  with  no  answer

UNITED  WE STAND  =  REPUBLICRATS

[rex6666]

Every time i get an invitation from AARP with a return envelope i always
write on the invitation What is your stand on gun control? never had
an answer, also tried to email them they have a list of question they will
adress, this is not one of them.

[Big Al in Nebr]

This is good stuff, thanks for getting the word out to the rest of us.

[Graybeard]

Every and I do mean EVERY time they have sent me one of those prepaid return envelopes I've stuffed it with all it will hold to include junk other than what they sent me but always all they did sent and mail it back to them. I always clearly write them a note that their anti gun policies is why I am doing this and suggest to them them might want to take me off their mailing list.

I think they might actually have gotten the message as I've not gotten one from them in a very long time.

[GRIMJIM]

My mother is a member, even though I have repeatedly told her about their anti second amendment stance as well as their pro gay/ lesbian attitudes.

The Bohemian in her can't get past the discounts though.

[coldmold]

A few years ago there was an article in one of the gun rags about the aarp. I believe it was guns and ammo. The authors did a good job of pointing out that it was started for the sole purpose of selling old people insurance. I send all their stuff back with a note saying I might jion when they change their stance on gun control.

[slim rem 7]

 we have some life insurance through them.. the wife just won t look past the surface..
 some can, some can t .. got nothing to do with intelligence ..just how folks focus..

[alsaqr]

Belonged to the AARP for one year many years ago.  Then I found out that they are a dedicated anti-gun organization.  Horace Deets used to run the AARP.  In a reply to my letter, old Horace claimed that the AARP membership had voted at one of their conventions to make gun control an issue.  This is not so:  The big wheels at that convention took it upon themselves to make the AARP an anti organization.

I have some huge thick washers that go into the postage paid return envelope to the AARP.