College Republicans sharpen their marketing skills preying on the elderly

[xray s]

These guys are just training for their future jobs selling "investments" in Bush's new privatized social insecurity program...oh the fun they are gonna have then! It'll make the Enron scams look like a church picnic.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/world/10499829.htm

By THOMAS B. EDSALL

THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON - The College Republican National Committee is under fire for using front organizations to collect millions of dollars in contributions, including money from elderly people with dementia...

The Times reported that a number of elderly donors gave far more money than they could afford.

"I don't have any more money," Cecilia Barbier, 90, a retired church worker in New York who made more than 300 donations totally nearly $100,000, told the paper. "That was all the savings... . Now, I'm scrounging." Monda Jo Millsap, 68, of Van Buren, Ark., told the Times that she emptied a savings account and then got a $5,000 bank loan to give a total of $59,000.

[bleedingheart]

1. There should be a group called The Dumb Republicans

because I really can't comprehend why these people where giving that kind of money ($100,000) away...I know Dems that give money but none of them give that kind of money away...even for candidates they really care about....

To give away your retirement money to the GOP...that is just foolish.

In the cases where they were pickpocketing the dementia sufferers...where the hell were their kids or guardians? I am sorry but my bro-in-law has legal control of his parents...he did that as soon as he saw that they were unable to make rational decisions....luckily he did it because they may have fallen for these scams as well...

[alvis]

2. Sounds like a strategy borrowed from the televangelists

[gnofg]

3. Good Moral Christians

This is vultures er values

[Ian David]

5. Let them eat Bush

"Kanfer noted that since Response Dynamics has taken on the account, "the College Republican budget has increased 25-fold." The mailings, he said, use "the same lists that every Republican fundraiser basically mails - gun owners, pro-life activists, businessmen who don't like attorneys. It would be absurd to think we have lists called 'dementia people.' "

Ye reap what ye sow.

What do you think of your Republicans NOW, stupid old people?

[annabanana]

4. the The College Republican National Committee

have been stinkers of the first water for the longest time!

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[gratuitous]

6. Just a preview of privatization

I think the real reason social security gets under the skin of the uberclass is that the relative pittance they get doesn't make a great thundering herd of difference in their financial situation. For the millions of retirees for whom it marks the dividing line between self-sufficiency and destitution, it represents a lifeline that enables them to keep their indepedence and dignity. This is the true affront to GOP sensibilities.

While someone might get cheated out of his or her monthly social security check by a flim-flam artist every now and then, privatization means the possibility of scamming someone out of every last penny in one swoop. Far more efficient, market-wise, and appealing to the penurious nature of the robber baron class.

The bottom line? What provision will there be for someone scared or stampeded into making a foolish investment decision that costs them everything? And if we're not going to let that person starve in the street, why are we screwing around with the very system designed to do that in the first place?

[maxsolomon]

7. they were duped!

response dynamics victimized the college republicans & they're 100% NOT CULPABLE.

karma should be a bitch, protofascists.