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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when AARP was an organization that actually was good for our senior citizens. My how things have changed. I will not join them because I do not agree with the leftist organizations that they are affiliated with. I will not let my money contribute to them. I admire this woman who wrote a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember when AARP was an organization that actually was good for our senior citizens. My how things have changed. I will not join them because I do not agree with the leftist organizations that they are affiliated with. I will not let my money contribute to them.</p>
<p>I admire this woman who wrote a letter to Mr. Rand, the Executive Director of AARP. She not only has a grasp of &#8216;the situation&#8217;, but she also has an incredible command of the English language! I would say she pretty well summed things up!</p>
<p>Dear Mr. Rand,</p>
<p>Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to  renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is  not what you were looking for, but this is the most honest response I  can give you.</p>
<p>Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the  real problem, a deepening lack of faith. While we have  proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long  admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer  endorse it&#8217;s abdication of our values.</p>
<p>Your letter specifically stated  that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we  hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept up to date on important  issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor  the one we have come to embrace.</p>
<p>We do believe that when two parties  agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not  necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically  opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned  our 200 years of government.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, we looked  forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP  to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not  possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP gave us a sense of belonging  which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama  administration and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood  pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of  interest there!</p>
<p>We do not understand the AARP posture, feel  greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our  senior years, and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We  mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not  contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There  are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without  threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.</p>
<p>This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out  of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and  bloodstained heritage. But even more importantly for our children  and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a  prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic.</p>
<p>I have  never in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find  myself listening to them. I don&#8217;t have to agree with them to appreciate  the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity  presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist  mindset in power.</p>
<p>Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in  some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it  and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities  it requires.</p>
<p>Your website generously offers us the  opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING???  Someone has broken into our &#8216;house&#8217;, invaded our home without our  invitation or consent. The President has insisted we keep the  perpetrator in comfort and learn the perp language so we can communicate  our reluctant welcome to them.</p>
<p>I DON&#8217;T choose to welcome  them.</p>
<p>I DON&#8217;T choose to support them.</p>
<p>I DON&#8217;T  choose to educate them.</p>
<p>I DON&#8217;T choose to medicate them, pay  for their food or clothing.</p>
<p>American home invaders get  arrested.</p>
<p>Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can  enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get?</p>
<p>Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and  others only have to break &amp; enter to be welcomed?</p>
<p>We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more  people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good  folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE  supporter of the current administration. One of us is out of touch with  mainstream America. Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have  more faith in it than one which is power driven.</p>
<p>We have  decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will  encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my address book,  I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a  credible statement to you.</p>
<p>I am disappointed as hell.</p>
<p>I  am scared as hell.</p>
<p>I am MAD as hell, and I&#8217;m NOT gonna take it  anymore!</p>
<p>Walt &amp; Cyndy</p>
<p>Miller Farms Equine Transport</p>
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