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In reply to the discussion: Events 2012 [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)PSARA led discussion group at Green Lake Public Library, 73554 East Green Lake Drive North, Seattle, this Thurs., March 22nd, 1-2:30 p.m. This is a current events discussion group and a new initiative by the PSARA Outreach Committee.
Please contact the WA State AARP, and if you are an AARP member let them know. Ask them to tell their leadership in Washington D.C. that we want them to stop looking for ways to compromise benefits on Social Security and Medicare. Instead they should be supporting getting rid of the income cap so we can make Social Security an even better program. With regard to Medicare, AARP should be supporting lowering the age of eligibility to bring younger people into Medicare. That would be a constructive approach to dealing with the financial problems Medicare is facing.
Phone #: (866) 227-7457
Email: waaarp {at} aarp.org
This weekend, we learned that AARP's CEO, Barry Rand, has invited to his Washington D.C. Capitol Hill home a "gallery of of powerful Washington establishment figures who are on record favoring cuts to Social Security and Medicare." (Huffington Post Report) In response to the news, the press spokesperson for the organization asserted "AARP is not pursuing any closed door deals or grand bargains."
We need to remind the AARP that they should be advocating to strengthen Social Security and Medicare rather than holding closed door discussions with the likes of Tom Donohue from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and John Engler of the Business Round Table, to mention but a few of the deficit hawks who will be attending this "Salon type conversation" and who are on record as wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare. (They want to cut everything except for defense spending.)
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