The aarp

[AlCzervik]

and their message board, some interesting somments going on.
http://community.aarp.org/rp-legislative/start

[mctrotter5]

1. I checked it out and was suprised at the comments that "get it" about

the Bushies. I guess I shouldn't be, I'm an AARP member myself. From the looks of this forum, ol Georgie may have chosen the wrong group to put in his sights to destroy! I think AARP will fight back.

[AlCzervik]

2. many are pissed by the looks of it but it seems

some are upset about being called liberal.

[tabasco]

4. Those people should turn in all their SS and other benefits.

If they're such rugged individualists (haha) then they shouldn't accept any of those liberal "handouts."

[Cleita]

3. Remember the prescription drug war?

When AARP backed the Bush plan, there was a revolution of AARP members. Many cancelled their memberships in such large numbers that the AARP organization couldn't help but take notice. AARP has definitely gone back to the positions it held before Novelli (we think a GOP plant) became chairman and Novelli did a 180 degree turn on the Social Security privatization scheme because he knew the AARP membership wouldn't stand for it.

So this is why there is a wholesale attack on AARP. Novelli sold out his GOP masters and they think they can bring him and the AARP organization down with him.

[AlCzervik]

5. i remember the night of the vote and staying up untill 2 in

the morning, watching in horror as it passed because of the assholery that went on. Big mistake attacking these people.

[EVDebs]

6. Love that word 'assholery' ! Yes indeed, medicare will be the real

battleground. Looking like with all the multinational globalized corporations dropping benefits like pensions and healthcare that workers will be 'on their own' in this new 'rentier' society Bush is creating.

National single payer healthcare is the only way out of that mess. The deceptions on SS are precursor to the big enchilada political fight over healthcare and Medicare ... how to pay for it that is. If you look at the concentration of wealth in this country, the richest 1 and 1/2% aka the 'superrich' are being subsidized by the other 98.5% and along with the globalized multinationals offshoring and outsourcing jobs and capital, the burden is being unduly borne by what's left of the middle class.

Congressional dems right now have to hold the line till reinforcements can make it in in '06. Hold that line ! Rickety rickety ram !

[Cleita]

7. Not only that in 2003, the most recent stats I have that 1%

owned 38% of the wealth of this country. I'm sure it's much more today.

[AlCzervik]

8. How fucked up is that?

[EVDebs]

9. Check out this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1262354

Nationalized social security, which we've already got, and nationalized healthcare, which is coming, are the only way to keep these necessary social programs going.

Neocons are actually destroying these 'markets' and then pointing TO the marketplace--which is failing--as the 'solution'. Progressives should be jumping up and down pointing this out to the neocons.