ShAARP Session: Observations from AARP

pass a bill with oversight and homeoner relief plaese

Investors are not innocent of this problem. Why did they
buy their home at too HIGH of price? The market adjusts
when the prices of homes are inflated to too high of price.

Why reward Wall Street, when they were the ones that were
part of inflating the price of homes. They are just trying
to borrow more of our taxpayers money to save their company.

Let's make sure we get our money back plus a reasonable
amount of return to grow our country. They should not be
rewarded for putting us in this bind.

Why bailout Wall Street with such a huge price tag ($700 B), which adds to the deficit. What about pulling the troops out of Iraq and saving $12 million a week? I have heard noone speak to those funds. Also, why does Wall Street play to the actions of Congress, is that to force Congress into signing a bill that would give them more money to pocket?

I hate to play the pessimist, but I do not trust the Bush Administration and his "merry band of men". I believe this is just a tactic to get more of "Main Street's" money; unfortunately all of this has an adverse impact on the medium to low income public.

I am disappointed with ARRP backing a health bill that had not been written and is detrimental for seniors. The government has never operated any business well...look at the post office.
As seniors we will be severly hurt with this new bill. The current system needs to be cleaned up with fraud and more streamlined with honest people. My friends and I will discontiue our membership with Arrp if you continue to back such a bill. This entire situation is socialism and everyone knows it. Where are our rights heading? This is an utter disgrace and hope our Congress has the foresight to turn this bill down. I want to know how you how the right to back this bill without the knowledge of your members?

Sir:

After hearing of AARP's position in support of the abdominal new Health Care Bill, I have decided after many years of continuous membership to let my subscription expire. You are obviously in the pocket of the liberal Democratic Party and our Marxist president at the expense of retirees such as me.

Please take the action required to expunge my name from your future subscriptions renewal mailings.

Phil Asher

I THOUGHT AARP WOULD BE THE WATCHDPOG FOR SENIORS--IF YOU SUPPORT OBAMAS PLAN TO RATION CARE TO OVER 55 THEN ONLY GOD CAN WATCH OUT FOR US NOW-I HAVE LOST ALL CONFIDENCE IN THIS ORGANIZATION AND PUT YOU IN THE SAME GROUP AS ACRON.THIS IS INDEED A SAD DAY!!!

We have been members of AARP for 14 years and carry both auto and homeowners, still working so no health insurance - if AARP continues it's ridiculous stance on health care reform I plan to get out of AARP - no one in the government has sufficiently explained how their new proposal(s) works, how much it costs, how is it paid for and by whom and how it effects health care for millions of senior citizens and others - our crack leaders in Washington in both houses of congress and our president always speak in generalities, clever sayings but "no real facts or figures" that allow people to understand what they are doing (if they even know themselves).

For a change AARP should take a stance that is beneficial for it's membership and demand the facts and figures prior to supporting any health care bill - everyone wants and knows health care reform is required but it should not be at the expense of actual health care and to the people who have been paying for the system all these years.

It perplexes me how the AARP can support a bill that the President himself says will confiscate $500 billion of the money we paid into Medicare to support his health care agenda. For years we have been hearing that Medicare will run out of money in a near future, and all of a sudden there are surpluses? If there are then they should be reinvested into Medicare not somewhere else. There is no question in my mind that we who need Medicare will suffer as a consequence of the AARP leaders abrogating their loyalty to us.

Do you know if there is a way to vote the current AARP leaders out? Do you know what each of the AARP leaders' agenda is?

the government can't run the programs that they have now so how can they exspect to run health care, AARP must be getting something for there backing for this bill.
I'm against this bill, and any one voteing for it will losses my vote in the up coming election and will not renew my membership with aarp.
We have enough BULL S_ _ T in washington and not we're getting it from arrp OBAMA lie to get in office and he lie's now, and you want me to follew you guys in supporting this bill you're nuts