On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:42:59 -0400, Frank "frank wrote:

On 9/25/2019 12:02 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article ,
says...

But what is the scam? Dues are $5 or less a year. That's not going to
break many people.

That people take too seriously an AARP endorsement? I don't konow how
many do but they are free to compare prio


A few years back the AARP started getting into political items that I do
not think represent older people one way or the other.

My biggest gripe was they were backing major gun control issues.

That is around the time I was just getting of AARP age. I quit looking
into them after that. Don't know what they are up to now and do not
care.

Most magazines charge advertisers by how many magazines they sell. So
they can afford to almost give away the magazines to get the bigger
advertising money.


I just googled it up and find that the AARP has 38 million members.
Sort of dwarfs the 5 million of us in the NRA.


That really sounds more like their mailing list than an actual paid
membership.
there are less than 41 million people total, over 55 according to the
census bureau