Well, I think I’m due to post a reminder about AARP. The non-profit and self-proclaimed advocate organization for the aged has proven itself far less reliable in terms of standing up for the best interests of ‘retired’ folk. If you’ve forgotten, AARP jumped in on behalf of Obamacare when the organization was promised a means of increasing profits through “the sale of Medicare products to older Americans.”
A story in RedState claims that AARP will make $1 billion over the course of the next 10 years thanks to Obamacare. Keep in mind that this is a non-profit organization with profits of $427 million in 2009. Hence, not only does it make sense to me that older Americans should drop AARP like a toxic potato, but it seems someone should reconsider the organization’s non-profit status.
I can understand the twinkle in the eyes of AARP execs when they started crunching the numbers based on the passage of Obamacare. That’s a whole lotta money by almost anyone’s standards, save the United States government, which doesn’t seem to think it’s worked up a sweat unless debt is accumulated in bunches of trillions.
I like the idea of a senior organization that actually advocates for the people it purports to represent. Amac, “The Conservative Alternative to AARP,” appears to be one such organization.
Regardless of the size of a temptation, a sellout is a sellout and, as far as I’m concerned, seniors were soldout by AARP. In the process, AARP helped to shove a clearly unconstitutional law down the throats of the American people. And, please don’t come back later, should the Supreme Court be so unwise as to approve the constitutionality of Obamacare – I have a basic understanding of the difference between right and wrong and Obamacare is clearly the latter.
Obamacare might be fine for people willing to turn their will, lives and free choice over to their government, but it’s not right for America. And AARP isn’t right, either.
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