On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:07:53 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:33:20 -0400,
wrote:

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.

Yeah, each of you would have to shoot 7 of them.

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

Isn't age 50 their lower limit?

Yes but the census chart I looked at did not break at 50.

It still would boggle the imagination if anyone under 65 actually sent
them any money since they basically sell medigap insurance. I know I
threw their junk mail in the trash when I got it at 50. As others have
pointed out their "discount" is basically the same thing you get from
AAA or NRA. You can beat them all if you just shop a bit.