Government Takeover of Retirement Assets

AARP Silent on Social Security!

September 7, 2010

Early Retirement Blog - President Obama’s Budget Deficit Commission is considering cutting Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age while the AARP remains virtually silent.

Social Security is once again under attack by the Wall Street, and this time the political party which created and defended the program is now a willing participant in its destruction. Visit the AARP website, and the only mention of the latest attempt by Wall Street to rob current and future retirees is a very short article on their website and a worthless online petition.

In the article, John Rother, executive vice president at AARP, urged the commission not to consider cutting the 75-year-old Social Security system. The AARP is “urging” these Wall Street wolves not to steal the American people’s retirements?

The article ends by suggesting that you visit the Budget Deficit Commission’s website, which “provides videos, testimonies, news releases and announcements.” It also gives the public an opportunity to “submit ideas and suggestions on how to address the nation’s long-term fiscal challenges.”

That’s it? That is all AARP has to say about the plan to rob American’s retirements? If you care about saving Social Security, AARP has an online petition buried in their website, where you can whine “I’m joining millions of Americans to say “don’t target Social Security benefits for unfair cuts.”

It doesn’t say on the AARP web page who is going to get your online petition, and it doesn’t really matter anyway, because nobody pays attention to online petitions. The only logical conclusion one can make for why AARP is not fighting to save Social Security is because they don’t care. The AARP does not care if Americans lose their retirement and are forced to work until they die.

Which is odd, since they are an association of retired persons aren’t they? And, if Wall Street, Washington, and President Obama have their way and basically get rid of retirement in America, the association will eventually go extinct. Out of pure self-preservation, shouldn’t the AARP be doing more to save the program that helped create the association in the first place?

Or is the AARP so busy selling insurance that they have lost sight of why they exist?

Whatever the reason for AARP’s silence on Social Security, if you are an AARP member who cares about saving Social Security, maybe you should contact them here, and tell AARP to stop selling insurance and start fighting for Social Security.