Hey! What’s AARP anyway but a rip-off of “US” and “People” for affluent seniors. Of course they don’t really care what happens to those “old folks” entitlements ‘cause their members don’t need them anyway! Remember, the original mission of the organization was to represent the interests of retired teachers. Unless I missed the memo I don’t recall AARP using their immense influence to mitigate the screw-job currently facing educators nationwide! This organization is nothing more than a money making scam focused on a specific economic and cultural demographic!

“AARP says it is willing to negotiate possible benefit cuts.”

Willing to negotiate? What position is AARP in to “negotiate” with anyone outside their membership? They’re just another special interest lobby in DC. What would the reaction be to a statement from the American Petroleum Institute that they were “willing to negotiate” the price of oil?

The youngest AARP members are 55 years old. There is no proposal, not one, from either Democrats OR REPUBLICANS which touches in any way the benefits promised to anyone 55 and older. What the F*** are they complaining about? Every one of their members is safe. They could as logically go to the matresses over cuts in Sesame Street funding for all the relevance this latest kerfluffle has to their compass.

Geezers, of which I am one, have absolutely nothing to worry about from either social security or medicare. To portray oldsters dying in the streets is pure, shameless, cynical demagoguery. AARP should be ashamed.

Now, having said that, my kids and to a much greater extent, my granddaughter are SO SCREWED thanks to the bottomless entitlement mentality of my generation at large!

The capability of the boomers to accept whatever new atrocity is being dealt them by coporate scum is second to none.  Don’t hold your breath waiting for blowback or reprisals from the original American Sheep.  If they are told to they will tie a coffee filter to their hat and protest in favor of their own benefits being cut.

America is not Greece. We print our own money
here. So far, for no sane - or much less,
humane - reason, we print it for banks, not for
people. And in this ongoing demand crisis, the
banks find it pleasing to hold onto it for
themselves, & for gambling in derivatives &
other asocial operations, rather than distribute
it to us in affordable loans that would raise
demand.

Capitalism is a self-destructive practice that
weds Lady Politics & corrupts her with itself
unto the ugly death of both, leaving behind
only plague for the rest of us.

WhoTF are these AARP ‘Spokespersons’? You can bet your bippy they do not speak for ‘the Group’.

I hope seniors cancel their membership in droves.