user wrote:
Charlie Self wrote:
On Dec 9, 11:31 am, Just Wondering wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
Doug Winterburn wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
I know that NRA/ILA has been reasonably effective in getting
the
Congress to vote the way I want them to.
Yeah, PACs get their power from money but that money can come
from a
million people contributing ten bucks as easily as from
Microsoft
contributing 10 million.
...or from a bunch of geezers contributing to AARP.
Hey, it's not going to be long before I become a "geezer".
Geezer
Power!!!!
And unless you luck out and die young, it's gonna happen to you
to.
AARP (American Association of Retired People) is something of a
misnomer. You don't have to be old, you can join AARP at age 50.
And you don't have to be retired, either. I joined because AARP
members can get hotel discounts, and the first time I used the
discount saved me more money than a three year membership.

It's almost funny. My mother enrolled me when I turned 50. I didn't
bother renewing until years later, but now, my wife renews every
year. You do NOT get off the mailing list if you don't rejoin, it
just changes the nature of the mailings--no more magazines and
newsletters, just a short ton of junk mail telling you what you're
missing.

I started getting AARP's mailings when I hit about 49. Last
March
when I turned 53 and was still getting their stuff in the mail, I
sent a
letter back to them telling them I wasn't old enough to be getting
old,
to take my name off of their mailing list, and hit me up when I get
into
my mid 80's just to see if I would like to join then.
Not a word from them since!

A couple of years ago I started getting asked at restaurants and
theaters and so on if I wanted a senior citizen discount. I resisted
for a while then finally decided "Oh, to Hell with it, if they want to
short-change themselves it's their business".

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