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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-11 06:15 PM
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5. except that there is some truth the story..
From CBS News...

The nation's most powerful senior's group telling the Wall Street Journal it was ready to deal on cutting social security benefits. The AARP's policy chief John Rother admitting "some of our members will no doubt be upset." So upset that within hours the AARP was insisting this was always their position, CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.

"We can make changes that are modest and we can make changes with a great deal of lead time so we don't need to affect anyone who is currently retired today or near retirement," said said David Certner, AARP's legislative policy director.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/17/eveningnews/main20072092.shtml#ixzz1PZsvUw27

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